Cities in a wood: Outlooks of nature in seventeenth-century England
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This article aims to study outlooks of nature in seventeenth-century England in general and the John Evelyn’s ideas in particular. The methodology employs content and analysis on selected fragments of Sylva, Or a Discourse Of Forest-Trees, And The Propagation Of Timber In His Majesty’s Dominions (1662). This study is framed by Environmental History approach, the perspective of transitions to capitalism and the enclosures process. We propose the category “environmental” concerns to examine Evelyn´s reforestation treatise. The study concentrates on how the treatise addresses the medical use of different trees, the management of green areas, native flora and biodiversity. This suggests that the outlooks about nature in Sylva linked care, control, planning, and beauty. However, even when recommendations focused on the regeneration of damaged forests, the text disregarded the biological action of an autonomous nature.
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