The purpose of this project is to promote the appreciation of nature in its different shapes and forms and at different times and locations. There are actual physical locations out there referred to in this project. Here, an opportunity is provided for you to undertake a virtual exploration, facilitated by music videos showing various sceneries. The project is above all educational; its coordinator is Frank Owarish. The project is dedicated to Noel Brown, friend and colleague (former Director, UNEP, New York).
John Denver came to visit me at my office at UNITAR; he was interested in efforts to promote an awareness of the environment and related issues; there is no better way to accomplish his wish than to promote nature appreciation; here is a tribute to him (gone too soon): Nature appreciation via Beethoven, credit Clayderman and grassin1938:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcxdMGHcg2Y&playnext=1&list=PL08D249A6EE0D2D2A
| With a busy life, most of us fail to stop and look and admire the beauty that nature has to offer. There is so much taken for granted. You may recall this citation: “What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare” (William Henry Davies, Leisure, Songs of Joy)Nature appreciation via music and pictures:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAAsth8eLps | ||
| Nature and love and music blendhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6w0cy_1HY4 /td> | Nature appreciation with music MY WAY (credit youtube, clayderman and Mate85774) | |
| Nature appreciation 102:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBAVMMPFA3U | More nature and music (credit youtube, waldo de los rios, claudiogregoriano) |
To my friends at the UN members of the bike club; we rode around enjoying the exercise and the beauty of nature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JqpZazMA4E
Here in this web site, in addition to providing information about nature appreciation in general; there will be information about the different green areas forming part of ONAP along with other relevant information (historical and geographical) including maps with directions. In addition, there will be an opportunity for you, the cyber-visitors, to indulge in virtual tours.
Educators teaching courses on environmental/ecological matters may find it useful to direct their students to this web site and also to go and visit specific areas of interest. Some of these have interesting geo-morphological properties. Above all, it is an opportunity to be surprised by what nature has for us to enjoy, from the various types of trees to the variety of birds and other natural species (squirrels, deer, wild turkeys, etc) and to brooks and waterfalls and more, for example: Twelve Apostles Australia https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=twelve+apostles+australia&form=HDRSC2&first=1&scenario=ImageBasicHover
| Professor Sheila Lintott started a very interesting debate worth pursuing. In “Adjudicating the Debate Over Two Models of Nature Appreciation” Sheila Lintott stated that “it seems commonplace to point out that we aesthetically appreciate a wide variety of objects: that is, art objects are not the only good candidates for aesthetic appreciation. We know from experience that one can aesthetically appreciate not only Georgia O’Keefe’s White Trumpet Flower, but also a white trumpet flower. Similarly, we can aesthetically appreciate both a pictorial representation of the human form and that form instantiated in certain prime specimens. We do so, moreover, without classifying either flowers or human beings as art objects. Yet, the paradigm of aesthetic appreciation today, in both everyday life and in educative contexts, is the appreciation of art, which explains why we tend to try to understand what makes aesthetic appreciation appropriate in terms of what makes art appreciation appropriate. This approach may not be entirely mistaken, for beginning with the familiar is always a good plan. However, it must be done with care, otherwise important differences between our relationships with the art we appreciate and with the nature we appreciate may be overlooked, thereby obscuring salient differences in the appreciation of each.” (see The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 2004, pp.52-72 for full text). |
| A related concept is that of nature conservancy; in fact there is an organization by that name quite active on the subject; to start with, you may wish to look at Nature Conservancy’s work in New York as an example. |
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