Out of respect for the organic, accumulative and, yes, obsessive nature of the art, it acquired roughly 4,000 of Mr. Van Maanen's objects, keeping almost everything together while clearing out the home.
– and I ask: what, when you are a grandfather, will you tell? "I'd like to think if I do ever make it to, say, 80, that when I look back on it I'll think, yes, of nature, but more pertinently of all the friends I've made.
To assess the level of Experience, respondents were asked whether they had experienced each of the 18 activities in nature ("yes" or "no") when they were children (age ≤ 12 years).
"It would probably challenge our slightly stuckist nature, yes.
Conservation should be about preserving nature, yes, but also about giving people a chance to experience it.
So let's protect nature, yes, but let's also maintain trails, restore the Forest Service and support programs that get young people rained on in the woods.
There's the obvious violence done to people and nature, yes, but this is connected to more everyday forms, the subtle, easily missable animosity that can lurk in talk and gesture.
"After living with those objects: yes, some artificial nature objects are quite nice.
