Nature study

The Ways Nature Affects the Workplace Human beings by design have an innate need to connect with nature. Currently, a growing number of companies are experimenting with “biophilic design”, which simply means incorporating a physical and ephemeral presence of nature within a space or a place. Biophilic design promotes the view of nature indoors, and can be as simple as incorporating a fish tank, having green or wooden walls, as well as featuring potted plants within a space. As a species, we have…

Advantages of nature play on the development of children The advantages of children interacting with the natural environment have been promoted to early childhood educators and families of children alike, with theorists such as Froebel (1896) encouraging for children to be acquainted with the nature and their fellow creatures. With the development of the world into highly constructed environments Louv (2000) suggests that children are prone to suffering “nature deficit disorder” from the lack of…

landscapes scenes and the appreciation of nature depicted in the brushstrokes of Patenir or the poems of Whitman. It was not until the late 1940s, however, that the modern environmental movement began to take shape with the passing of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the first federal regulation legislation passed to monitor water quality. Since then, environmentalism has blossomed from that single piece of legislation into several specific fields of study and career paths, and has…

Nature, our daily companion, our place of quiet and peace, our best friend, yet our worst nightmare, but what is nature, what does it provide and why is it so important for mankind? What do we consider as sublime and do we, the people, consider ourselves as sublime nature? At this point it is important to note that this essay will be dealing with a different approach to sublime nature. "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created…

Ecocriticism explores how nature and natural world are imagined through literary texts. Ecocriticism is divided into two waves. The first wave is emphasized on nature and writing it as an object of study and as a meaningful practice. The main point of the first wave is the idea that there is environmental crisis regarding the cultural and physical aspects, in the world, so there is need to raise awareness and create solutions for those problems. In first wave ecocriticism, the primary concern…

exploitation of nature and worrying shapes of environmental hazards. It sees how a ‘literary text’ contributes into the ‘construction’ of nature and the politics of development (Nayar, 241). Eco-criticism focuses on the link between literature and nature. Raymond Williams in his ‘The Country and the City’(1973) elegantly argued how English Literature contributed to specific notions of nature (Nayar, 242). Thus, eco-criticism believes that literary, visual and other representations of nature have…

Smith’s The Production of Nature from Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space (1987) draws on the work of Karl Marx to explore how the structure of capitalism has affected society’s relationship with the natural world as factor of production. Smith argues that our conceptions about nature as being separate from society are what enable us to exploit it. In order to explain this concept Smith divides nature into first nature and second nature. First nature, being the…

The results indicated that Bengali proverbs contain environmental elements such as fruits, nature, flowers, animals and even agricultural elements. KEYWORDS: Environmental Discourse, Bengali Proverbs, Anthropological Linguistic, Encoding INTRODICTION Discourse is a specific collection of…

perceptions of nature according to their identities. To this extent, this paper will address the question of whether it exists a nature ‘out there’ as maintained by Positivism or if it is only a social construction as claimed by Social Constructivism. It will be argued that the radicalism (and sometimes even blindness) of those perspectives is reflected also in their political approaches, as highlighted by the case study of the Australian…

A study compared the mental health of 100 people who moved from city landscapes to greener, more natural settings and those who relocated in the reverse direction. The data showed that those who relocated to settings with a higher exposure to nature were found to be happier during the three years that their mental health was recorded. Positivity around nature has been recorded for decades. Many people express their views through writing poetry, essays, and songs. John Muir and William Wordsworth…