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Mountain majesties above fruited plains: culture, nature and Rocky Mountain aesthetics

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorEnvironmental Philosophy, Inc., publisher
dc.coverage.spatialRocky Mountains
dc.coverage.spatialFront Range (Colo. and Wyo.)
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:59:16Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:59:16Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractThose residing in the Rocky Mountains enjoy both nature and culture in ways not characteristic of many inhabited landscapes. Landscapes elsewhere in the United States and in Europe involve a nature-culture synthesis. An original nature, once encountered by settlers, has been transformed by a dominating culture, and on the resulting landscape, there is little experience of primordial nature. On Rocky Mountain landscapes, the model is an ellipse with two foci. Much of the landscape is in synthesis, but there is much landscape where the principal determinant remains spontaneous nature, contrasted with the developed, rebuilt landscape in which the principal determinant is culture. Life in the Rockies permits both use and admiration of nature (fruited plains), with constant reminders (mountain majesties) that the human scale of values is rather tentatively localized in a more comprehensive environment.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Mountain Majesties above Fruited Plains: Culture, Nature, and Rocky Mountain Aesthetics, Environmental Ethics 30, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 3-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics200830114
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics200830114
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/36770
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectenvironmental aesthetics
dc.subjectaesthetics in landscapes
dc.subjectaesthetics in mountains
dc.subjectFront Range
dc.subject.lcshRocky Mountains
dc.titleMountain majesties above fruited plains: culture, nature and Rocky Mountain aesthetics
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