Down the centuries this country has been shaped by human involvement with the landscape.
Problems arise when the landscape is no longer shaped by energy of human individuals, but by human beings with a powerful weapon known as technology. ‘Nur wer mit Land schafft, schafft die Landschaft!’
Human beings as procurers and providers using this energy to introduce those small changes ceaselessly in the landscape - it is this quality that has vanished.
Every superpower-style mechanistic intervention in the landscape means a loss of diversity and impoverishment, because the self-organizing system of nature is rejected and destroyed as a result.
Technocrats deny ordinary citizens their right to respond in a small-scale way to these alterations, so that diversity vanishes. Seen in this way, ordinary citizens live in a prison, robbed of the natural right to participate as human beings in natural processes.
The crucial role here is played by the factor of time. Adapting forms of life to changing circumstances is only possible when sufficient time is available to respond to a new situation. Nature refuses to go any faster!
The Hungarian ecologist and biologist, Andras Zicsi warns that if we set too much store by mechanistic interventions, we lose the possibilities of exploring those essential processes that take place naturally.
In the end people become totally reliant on their technical know-how and they approach their ceaseless efforts in maintaining the cultivated land in a sort of triumphant flush of victory, assuming that they can carry the work out without having to rely at all on the dynamics of nature.
The degree to which human beings are prepared to think in terms of process in acquiring technical know-how is quite remarkable; with regard to natural developments their mode of thought has become totally static.

Nature Culture Fusion, Louis G. Le Roy, NAi Uitgevers, 02002, p. 85.