T.R. Ormond’s Reviews > Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite > Status Update

"The Cartesian shears that had separated 'the world out there' from 'the mind in here' had laid upon thoughtful [people] the burden of discovering how nature affected the mind and how mind knew nature."

Yes, it was a burden. The affect of nature was better when we didn't even realize that it was an affect.

since this one is so long, and the reference library is quarantining books once you've touched them for more than 5 minutes, I will have to strategize how I'm going to read this in one day... In the meantime I'm reading Gillian Rose's much shorter Feminism and Geography.