I doubt that's true, and perhaps that's where my idea of nature (that nothing is untouched by humans) diverges from the one he offers here.
That's because when slavery permeated society -- the legal structure, culture, science -- nothing was left untouched by racism and racial hierarchy.
In all areas of life - pensionable age, crime patterns, popular culture, politics and family relationships - nothing will be left untouched.
This TC writer also noticed an alarming depreciation in battery performance after updating to iOS 11.4 at the end of last month — with the battery level dropping precipitously even when the handset was left untouched doing nothing.
But paying out cash to shareholders does nothing about almost $140bn sitting untouched overseas.
They interrupt several times to ask if we're enjoying our meal (we grunt non-commitment; hey, we're Brits), but say nothing as they clear almost untouched plates.
Luckily for both, they happen to be standing on the one spot where a loft window space falls through them, leaving their character untouched, disturbed by nothing more than wind and dust.
Gallagher (2005, 247) concludes: "nothing about human experience remains untouched by human embodiment".
Michael as a character was an expression of that concept — how one can change everything yet change nothing at all, the underlying issues untouched, unexamined.
He was one "who left scarcely any kind of writing untouched and who touched nothing that he did not adorn"—such was the judgment expressed by his friend Dr. Johnson.
