Abstract:
The dispute on wilderness between geography and culture has prompted the core goal of nature conservation to shift from “wild place” to “wildness”. Therefore, both the intrinsic values of non-human members of the ecosystem and the value relationships of symbiotic members will be demonstrated based on the natural value theory of Environmental Ethics. Thus, “a model of human-environment interactions” can be built by integrating science and aesthetics. It is concluded that the result of “human going into the wilderness” is “philosophy turning to wildness”. It means that natural experience can help humans develop active attachment to the natural space, that is, the spiritual and aesthetic consciousness will be constructed by the natural environment. Specifically, the material and spiritual orientations of natural value circulation emphasized by the wilderness philosophy can be converted into two directions to identify natural values — physical adaptation and mental response. Finally, a “visible+invisible” landscape value identification and management system can be established to show the overall beauty with the interactive configuration between nature and humans.