O ecoturismo e o mito da natureza intocada

Abstract

This essay develops a reflection about the contemporary search for nature and shows how influences from “naturalism” have brought distortions in the relations between human beings and nature increasing distances and creating the false idea related to nature as having all the benefits in the opposite of culture having all vices. This conception have created some myths about nature like the idea of “wild nature” in which case human beings are not involved as participants but they are only visitors. The “authentic nature” excludes human presence and at the same time presents a contradiction since one considers the existence more and more authentic when situated in nature