Lane talks about how nature was not in place before culture, but how culture first had to be before nature would be prevalent. He says “landscapes are culture before they are nature” (239) because it “happens as a dynamic exchange” (240) or rather the preconceived imagination created by culture of one interacting with the place. This is an every day occurrence. People who know what places they are traveling to usually have some idea what it is like, so in their own minds they come up with what their experience there will be like. Therefore, before one ever comes upon nature, he already has an idea what it will be like and therefore the culture came before the experience of the nature. Lane goes on to say how “our relationship to nature has always been a product of cultural intervention”, and this goes back even to the Garden of Eden. This was the one place of nature existing before culture, but then culture acted upon it and the doors to that garden were closed for eternity. How culture always impacts nature.
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