They call it the Anthropocene, and with that change, we should be rethinking the relationship between civilization and nature. NPR blogger and astrophysicist Adam Frank has a big interest in this ...

So, there's the city and then there's the country, the built environment and the wilderness, nature and civilization. Whatever name the dichotomy goes by, we usually think of the world humans ...

Both bread and wine are products of settled society. They represent the power to control nature and create civilization, converting the wild into the tamed, the raw into the cooked—and their ...

But civilization is a fragile creation. As everlasting and unshakable as we think our modern buildings and cities are, Mother Nature always finds away to persevere, to expand and to thrive.

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Two of these, "A Scientific Theory of Culture"(reviewed in Nature of August 25, 1945) and the present work, to some extent overlap. "Freedom and Civilization"may be regarded as a war-time ...

Tolstoy talks about how man is destroying nature to make room for civilization. I believe this to be true because man is eliminating forests, and killing nature just for housing and businesses.

Their civilization fuelled Greek myths such as ... The results are published online today in Nature Communications 1. It is likely, says Stamatoyannopoulos, that the Minoans descended from ...

For Wanda and Phyllis, who grow their food and hunt and fish in the lagoons and swamps, life after the collapse of civilization is ... returning to a state of nature. When intruders they’ve ...