There can be no doubt that population increase and environmental pollution are the world's biggest problems today. These pose serious threats to the quality of life and art. They can only be remedied by an efficient system of birth-control and sound compulsory education, in order to regain spiritual enlightenment. Intro. p. 1.

This thesis attempts to study the sensuous impresions of nature on Lanier and the method uses in telling how those impresions are made. The study try to present the relation of nature and Lanier.

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In this thesis I attempt to base an environmental ethic on a quality called naturalness. I examine it in terms of quantification, namely, as to whether it can quantified? I then apply the concept to specific areas such as restoration and conservation to create an environmental ethic and to show how such an ethic would be beneficial in general, and especially to policy issues concerning the environment. The thesis consists of three chapters: (1) the definition of nature and natural by way of a historical approach; (2) the place of humans in this scheme; and (3) the place of value and the discussion concerning quantification.

Dans ses Cahiers, Valéry témoigne d’un transformation du statut de la subjectivité : « L’homme est un animal enfermé à l’extérieur de sa cage. Il s’agite hors de soi. » Annoncée par les romantiques et les symbolistes qui assistèrent à l’éclosion de l’idée poétique à la jonction des matières du corps, de l’univers et du langage, cette nouvelle topologie fut assumée par les poètes qui lui ont succédé. Dès l’aube des années soixante, Jacques Dupin et John Montague ont exploré le sujet du dehors en nouant des rapports inédits entre l’intériorité, le corps, le langage et le monde. Investiguant les paysages sémantiques, le corps de la nature et la physique de la parole, cette thèse en élucide la transitivité en étudiant le rôle joué par l’épreuve charnelle dans la redéfinition de la subjectivité poétique et de la nature, soumis à des processus d’extériorisation et d’intériorisation qui révèlent une conscience incarnée et un dehors sémiotique. Tout en démontrant l’universalité de cette porosité, elle compare des manières singulières d’habiter le monde, appréciées au cœur des enjeux formels de la réévaluation du sensible. Plus généralement, la densification du verbe et l’initiative sémiotique conférée aux qualités sensibles de langages informés par les modalités physiques du discours sont analysées pour dégager les propriétés d’une parole naturelle. Pour rendre compte du poème incarné comme expérience de l’être-au-monde, la phénoménologie est relayée par la poétique, la sémiotique et l’acroamatique qui illustrent un décloisonnement analogue du sujet dans le régime linguistique et révèlent un sujet voué à son énonciation sauvage au même titre qu’à l’altérité des perceptions. / In his Cahiers, Valéry reflects a transformation of the status of subjectivity : "Man is an animal locked outside of his cage. It stirs outside itself." Prefigured by the Romantics and Symbolists which witnessed the birth of poetic ideas at the junction of the materiality of the body, of the universe and of language, this new topology was carried by poets who followed him. Since the late fifties, Jacques Dupin and John Montague have explored this external subjectivity, expressing new relations between interiority, the body, the language and landscapes. Investigating the semantic landscapes, the body of nature and the physics of speech, this thesis elucidates their transitivity, by studying the role played by the fleshly experience in the redefinition of poetic subjectivity and Nature, submitted to process of externalization and internalization that disclose an embodiement of consciousness and a semiotic exteriority. While demonstrating the universality of this porosity, it compares unique ways of inhabiting the world, appreciated at the heart of the aesthetic formal issues inherent to the reevaluation of sensory experience. Generally, the densification of the verb and the semiotic initiative conferred to the sensitive qualities of languages informed by the physical modalities of speech are analyzed to underline the properties of a natural speech. To study poetry of incarnation as an experience of the being-in-the-world, phenomenology is relayed by poetics, semiotics and acroamatics, wich illustrate a similar decompartmentalization of subjectivity in the element of speech, and reveal a subject doomed to a wild utterance, in the same way as to the alterity of perceptions.

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Habilitationsschrift--Philosophische Fakultät--Freiburg im Breisgau--Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Wintersemester 2002/2003. / Bibliogr. p. 536-658. Index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Rijks-Universiteit te Utrecht, 1910. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [138]-153).

Many studies suggest that children are increasingly disengaged with the natural environment and in contrast to past decades spend significantly less free time exploring natural play places. Other studies suggest that from the ages of three to eight, foundational childhood memories are formed, and these memories likely influence adult beliefs regarding the natural environment. The goal of this study was to examine the character and ecology of adults’ childhood memories of nature, along with how they potentially shaped the individual as they progressed through life. Adults between the ages of eighteen to twenty-seven were interviewed using a semi structured format, and asked to fill out two questionnaires to detect themes between memories and environmental beliefs. Responses were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results help to identify the behaviours and experiences that encourage children to engage with the natural environment, allowing play spaces to be designed in order to foster environmental connectivity.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-76). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.