If you’re really paying attention you’ll notice an interesting theme running through many of top issues discussed around here these days. In essence, how do we view Nature and how do our views affect how we interact with it?

It sounds like an intellectual question, but think about how this question reverberates through contentious issues like the Trinity River Vision, fixing I-35, urban gas drilling, our need for light rail, how our buildings look, etc, et al, ad naseum.

There’s an interesting lecture coming up at the Amon Carter Museum on Saturday, November 10 at 11am that explores this question. Here’s a description from the Carter website:

Noted author and scholar William Cronon explores the various ways Americans have conceived of their national landscape and how competing conceptions of the human place in nature continue to affect environmental politics.

Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 between October 10 and November 5 to register; confirmation will be sent.

This program is in conjunction with Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke.