Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New Word Needed for Stability

Sublime and pastoral nature are the extremes at each end. Sublime is the thunderstorm from the angry gods and pastoral is happy cows frolicking in the open pasture. Not everything in the world fits into these two categories. There are many things that are in between, which suggests that new terminology needs to be made. That is not to say that sublime and pastoral are necessarily wrong, simply that a new addition is needed. This new term could encompass many more things than either sublime or pastoral, because it would probably make up the majority of the world. In anatomy, we learned that the body maintains stability through homeostasis. Receptors detects a change in the environment and certain things happen in the body in order for it to remain in balance. I think this concept could relate to nature as well. Sublime nature will happen sometimes. But animals and humans will react to it and make changes until they get back to their stable life. The same goes for pastoral occurrences. For this reason, I think this new word should describe the balance that life should be at before a disturbance occurs.

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