The nature of man. Man is a being formed in essence and in origin from nature. This is an obvious reality that, unfortunately, we often forget. Failing to recognize the natural substrate of the human species is to deny its basic substrate. It was above all from modernity, when the res cogitans was split […]

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People give names to plants, but where do the names come from? What do
plant names say about plants? And what do plant names say about us?
Common plant names in the English language help align these extremely
variable organisms with our own habits, interests and needs. For example,
some common names for plants offer practical advice. Breadfruit […]

Aesthetics of Nature: the Transformations of the American Landscape
The discovery of America, at the end of the 15th century, apart from involving the expansion of the known world, meant, in the imagination of European citizens, the appearance of a unspoilt and virgin space that had not participated in the history of the West, nor in […]

Invisible factors only become perceptible through an exercise of profound slowness*
Looking, in the 21st century, must be understood as “anticipating”. For this it is necessary to learn the methodology of looking slowly, which consists of the possibility of understanding, through “a single swipe of the eye”, the whole reality: its visible fabric and its underlying […]

The ways we have of representing the landscape and the personal experience it brings us are, essentially, a reflection of ourselves which eventually becomes a map drawn by our internal topography.
In the exercise of looking at the reality which surrounds us – and the landscape is a part of this, a set of elements which […]

Transgression in the landscape can surprisingly make it seem strange and even unknown to us, often a phantasmagoric landscape as a spatial representation of the historical archive of the memory of the present. In this way we can understand the nature of a society through its manifestations in space, and as a result through its […]