The Japanese love their landscapes tamed and manicured, more parks than wilderness. 12 They like artfully to prune their pines, cultivate simple flower and rock gardens, arrange a waterfall, attract some geese, walk a path with a geometrically rising curve, look back, and enjoy the moon rising over the temple, silhouetting it all. They are hardly interested in admiring a pristine ecosystem or geological formations. Should we say that the Japanese are enga- ging in some aesthetic deception? Yet who are we to argue they should give up their art and learn our science? The argument is rather that humans are always.
