Dan Flores: Quotes about nature

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“The humanities have usually left evolutionary nature to the biologists. But some of the other questions here are… posed by the multidisciplinary field known as environmental history.”

Dan Flores

The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)

Question , Nature

“[T]he human past… belongs not only to (say) the Blackfeet or the Mormons, but to all of us. …[W]e humans cannot be considered as separate from the earth of our evolution. We, too, are "natural."”

Dan Flores

The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)

Nature , Past

“Like Wilson and a slew of other authors working on what was once called "sociobiology" but is now usually called "evolutionary behavior" or "evolutionary psychology," I am convinced that there is a biological and universal human nature, and that it appears manifest in the human record. The question is, how might that insight… be folded into the narratives that give our immediate history meaning and power?”

Dan Flores

The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)

Behavior , History , Question , Nature

“I've spent most of the last few days looking at information to help me reimagine… a history… that digs into the stratum below the ones that carry wars or political affairs… many of the questions are new. …they have to do with our interaction with our ecological landscape, with what we might call the "natural West," as both idea in the mind and as tangible rock, grass, and flesh…”

Dan Flores

The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)

War , History , Idea , Question

“Whose natural West has this been all along? Is it evolution's superorganism? Or did the United States inherit a natural stage actually shaped by the very long human inhabitation? …Why do places like Hispanic New Mexico, Mormon Utah, and Montana seem so different when nature would seem so similar in all three? Or are they actually all that different? …[I]s there something else more universal that our richly layered cultures disguise, perhaps something as essential as an evolutionarily derived "human nature" that influences the way that we—all of us—see and interact with the flux we call the natural world?”

Dan Flores

The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains (2003)

World , Way , Nature , Universe