{"id":557,"date":"2023-12-15T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=557"},"modified":"2023-12-15T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:55:09","slug":"a-walk-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/12\/15\/a-walk-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"A walk in the woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">When you are walking through the woods and then <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW92618804 BCX4\">all of a sudden<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\"> you see a soda bottle or a beer can. This disrupts the idea that the woo<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">ds or nature are somehow a place untouched by man, which can be a very violent idea when you realize the separation that provides. Humans thinking that we are se<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">parate from nature allows us to see ourselves as above it, a governing force that can choose to protect or destroy but that is false. People are just as much a part of nature <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW92618804 BCX4\">as ever<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\"> bug and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">fern no matter how hard we try to distance ourselves. When we see a piece of trash in a <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">seemingly natural<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\"> space it forces us to confront this idea. This idea of separation <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">isn\u2019t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\"> only a human <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW92618804 BCX4\">idea<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\"> it <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">is a colonial one. Native and indigenous people all over the Earth have known that we are all as much a part of nature as everything else. Nature is not above us and we are not above <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">nature. This idea of utopian forests that are untouched by people allows us to ignore the fact that people and nature are equals who have been interacting for th<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92618804 BCX4\">ousands of years. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW92618804 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are walking through the woods and then all of a sudden you see a soda bottle or a beer can. This disrupts the idea that the woods or nature are somehow a place untouched by man, which can be a very violent idea when you realize the separation that provides. Humans thinking that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}