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man’s first encounter with nature

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   Considering that Africa is our cradle, this journey leads through the first landscapes humans ever laid eyes on. Like an ocean’s waves, the Namib’s dunes never changed from afar, but transitioned perpetually at close range. Death lived there, and life right next door in the Okavango Delta, where every soul was fed with green. The mountain ranges, too, were lush as life and the turquoise coastlines sugar water.

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a glimpse

a glimpse
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glimpse: NOBODY HATES WATERFALLS | Nobody hates waterfalls. Or sunsets. Or turquoise shores. Nobody finds nature repulsive. I think that’s safe to say. And it feels intuitive. But if you think about it, it’s anything but. It’s not like we can’t perceive ugliness. We can see it in the manmade. Or even in each other. That’s why we have a word for it. But we seem to carry an inherent device in us that universally translates landscapes into beauty even though it seems an unnecessary gadget for our survival. Other animals appear indifferent enough to nature’s face and yet here they are, doing just fine. You never catch a dog hiking up a mountain for the view, but they seem happy and surviving. So why, when, and how did nature code this sense for aesthetics into our DNA?



 

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Deadvlei / Namibia · 2017   desert phantoms
 

 
Table Mountain, Cape Town / South Africa · 2017   mind-bound
 

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Lake Bunyonyi / Uganda · 2017   muscle mirror



 

God's Bridge in Morocco

 
God's Bridge / Morocco · 2017   carving caramel



 

Simien Mountains, Ethiopia covered in fine mist

 
Simien Mountains / Ethiopia · 2017   fine mist

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