Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano, 1556
A black wall, 2012
"Wilderness is often imagined as the opposite of civilisation. yet if, as implied above, civilisation is a highly problematic concept, then understanding of wilderness and nature must be equally complex. for many, nature is something which is 'real; it is 'out
there' in the form of plants, animals, rocks, weather, water, etc, and the relationships between those elements. this 'scientific' understanding opposes 'nature' and 'culture' in rather the same way that we often think about divide between urban and rural. however, nature can be understood in a very different way, the way in which 'nature' is socially constructed and imaginatively brought into existence by particular social groups. from this perspective, nature, far from being an unchanging set of physical realities, exists as a mythological set of ideas, in the much the same way as the urban does. this does not mean that our idea of nature is unimportant. instead, the ways in which we construct (collectively think about and understand) nature have important impacts on the way in which we live in and engage with the physical environment, other species (plant and animal) and other human beings." from "Wild and Natural places" in People and place the extraordinary geographies of everyday life. by Lewis Holloway & Phil Hubbard