In the beginning, we were one with nature

By Elizabeth Dangerfield

For around 300,000 years, modern humans lived in small groups of hunter-gatherers, foragers and scavengers. They were often nomadic, subsisting on whatever was available.

A characteristic of many hunter-gatherer and subsistence-living societies is that people have great attachment to the land, not a sense of possession, but in guardianship. They tend to see themselves as living in harmony with other animals and plants, and all that makes up their world, rather than seeing themselves as masters of all they survey.

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