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“There is too often deliberate rage and vengefulness at work in the assault on nature and its species, as if one would project onto the natural world the intolerable anxieties of finitude which hold humanity hostage to death.” (from Forests: the shadow of civilization by Robert Pogue Harrison) Forests , published almost 20 years ago, is a little-known, complex, poetic treatise that deserves a much broader audience. It offers a look at the deep emotional relationship humans have with forests, and by extension, the wilds of nature. Harrison believes that we can understand ourselves better if we look at the way we look at forests. A forest, he argues, is like a mirror. When we look into them we see “a strange reflection of the order to which they remain external.” That is, while forests and woods, by definition,… read more