ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the problem by trying to answer a number of questions: to what extent has humanity excluded the ecosystem from its thinking and acting? It focuses on changes in perception and discusses landscape transformations, nature protection, and the role of agriculture in this process. The chapter seeks to lift the marginality discourse on a less material level. The concept of ecological marginality roots in the place the ecosystem occupies in the human mind. The discussions on environmental conservation and sustainable development are at the roots of the latest 'child' of protected regions, the biosphere reserve. In environmental terms, the problem of marginality is located in people's minds: it is the way they look at and use nature that causes environmental problems. The chapter concludes with few thoughts on the problem of resources.
