Alpine mountain views - Adlerweg, Tirol, Austria, October 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

Kilian Schönberger (@kilianschoenberger)

Reynard's Arch, Peak District

sheathed woodtuft / kuehneromyces mutabilis Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Pitlochry by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

Glacier Peak Wilderness

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“I loathe that word ‘pristine.’ There have been no pristine systems on this planet for thousands of years,” says Kawika Winter, an Indigenous biocultural ecologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. “Humans and nature can co-exist, and both can thrive.” For example, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in April, a team of researchers from over a dozen institutions reported that humans have been reshaping at least three-quarters of the planet’s land for as long as 12,000 years. In fact, they found, many landscapes with high biodiversity considered to be “wild” today are more strongly linked to past human land use than to contemporary practices that emphasize leaving land untouched. This insight contradicts the idea that humans can only have a neutral or negative effect on the landscape. Anthropologists and other scholars have critiqued the idea of pristine wilderness for over half a century. Today new findings are driving a second wave of research into how humans have shaped the planet, propelled by increasingly powerful scientific techniques, as well as the compounding crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. The conclusions have added to ongoing debates in the conservation world—though not without controversy. In particular, many discussions hinge on whether Indigenous and preindustrial approaches to the natural world could contribute to a more sustainable future, if applied more widely.

I will eat you alive

I will eat you alive

And there'll be no more lies

Sunset on the Matterhorn - Alpine Haute Route, June 2021

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Kilian Schönberger (@kilianschoenberger)

OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN as Will Taylor "Happily Ever After" — Wilderness (1.01)

Golden Enys Dodman Arch.  I sat on top of the cliffs watching the crowds in the distance watching the sunset from the Land’s End hotel, whilst I had this view all to myself as the golden light lit up the ocean right through the stone arch.