Who Speaks for Nature?
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floor and lower parts of the wall which were all made from flat stones found in the Sierra. I asked him if he had done this all by himself and he said "Yes, and look, this is nature" ("Si, y mira, esto es Ia naturaleza"}, and he pointed firmly at the stone carved wall, and he repeated this action by pointing first in the direction of the Sierra [national park] before pointing at the wall again. Then, he stressed his point by saying: "This [the Sierra] is not nature, it is artificial; this [the wall] is nature" ("Eso no es Ia naturaleza, es artificial; esto es Ia naturaleza").-Katrin Lund, "What Would We Do without Biodiversity?"
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