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work_mc3bar5mejeinpmim2pqa46q7e	F. Raymond Fosberg	Interest and Beauty in the World	1989	1	.pdf	application/pdf	705	44	58	With The Biosphere, which is to take place during 22-27 April 1990 mainly on the heights overlooking Budapest, and concerning which T o one who, for nearly 80 years, has found our natural world fascinating and beautiful, it has become moreand more distressing and emotionally painful to see it made increasingly and often shockingly homogenized and drab. The incredible diversity that makes Nature so interesting and satisfying to observe and worth living fades almost daily before our eyes, mainly in the names of'progress' and profit! may be what makes us comfortable in, and responsive to, natural beauty. Natural selection has formed us to fit and respond to what we are surrounded by. Artificial selection, resulting from more and more crowding into these increasingly unnatural surroundings, At present it seems to us that, if there is something particularly beautiful or interesting in the world, there is Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://www.cambridge.org/core	./cache/work_mc3bar5mejeinpmim2pqa46q7e.pdf	./txt/work_mc3bar5mejeinpmim2pqa46q7e.txt