ABSTRACT
From now on. the human being will find himself within an environment which is for the most part artificial. Contact with nature-with trees and landscapes-has been reduced for most members of western society to a rejection of socialized behaviour, to wishful thinking. to a dream or to an activity managed and enclosed into social life itself. 'Nature' has become 'artifice' to the extent that this word 'natural' has acquired the meaning of immediate, permanent, determining what is simple. spontaneous and obvious. This artificial world of objects, pictures, sounds. rules, signs and individuals is what we have come to call 'nature'. Our true 'Nature' henceforth is 'Culture'.
