ABSTRACT
This chapter presents abbreviated outputs and analyses of the results of the free lists and interviews respectively. It shows that Lithuanians have a dual vision of nature, and the two are the same just seen from different perspectives. Lithuanian speakers were used to back-translate ambiguous words unfamiliar to the author in order to assure accuracy. In March 1990, Lithuania emerged from a long period of socialism, when farms were collectivized during Soviet times. The instabilities in the natural, political, and economic environments—both natural and human-made—promote a kind of Faustian feedback loop in which change is ever more varied and affects qualitatively different factors, thus knowledge acquisition never ceases. The chapter discusses the Lithuanian farmer does not perceive her or his farmland, nature, and their own sense of self as disconnected domains of value and meaning. Nature provides a sense of a genuine cultural identity for both modes of ‘being’: as a farmer and as a Lithuanian.
