My question for this post is this: How is our comfort related to the nature we're surrounded by?

For example... Virginians who go out West might feel strange because out there they do not have trees, so a Virginian may feel exposed.

As I mentioned in my previous blog, there is a difference between the untamed wilderness and the humanized garden. Landscape is as much a human construct as many other humanized things. In other words, LANDSCAPES are CULTURE before the are NATURE. .... as discussed in class, the natural world frames what we tell.
... On this note it interests me the close connection that landscape and nature have to a story. This sort of reminds me of my linguistic class that teaches us that language must have ORDER in order to be a language and communicate meaning. The meaning of COSMOS is order, so am starting to see more of a connection here.
Related to all of this is physics. Physics, or nature to Aristotle, is different than the nature of other philosophers... at least those from the Enlightenment era. How do you believe this physics applies to us today in our ecology and religious places?

Another quick note for this blog... I was absolutely fascinated by the idea of Helen Keller and her "wordless sensation". Again, since I am in a linguistics class I was particularly interested in what life would be like without the ability to use language. Simple knowledge of objects may have been helpful to her, but it was by no means language. This is clearly why she was so upset when she had no understanding when she was being communicated to by her teacher.
But afterwards.... She saw everything when she had language. This allowed her to feel compassion and emotion.

Perhaps this connection of language and emotion is similar to the ecological story... as we understand nature we will better have compassion for it.