User:Chen Junyu/Graduation Project Seminar/ project proposal/Proposal3

Nature is a broad word. Plants, animals, landscapes, insects, air, earth, rain, they can all be counted into nature, even our human beings. Nature also can be seen as the opposite word of "unnatural", to describe all of the phonomenon which are out of the normal rules. And the object nature, now is going away from us. It is still surrounding, functioning, growing and dying. But it now plays a weaker role in our daily life. Of course it is the result of the developing of human society, but somehow, it is also because our narcissism and overwhaming self－focus.

Scale. How does scale function in our physical world and mental world? In physical world, scale is the thing to doing comparison, to measure things between each other, to describe how an object looks like. And sometimes scale is the element connects so closely to our feelings.

Phobia.Our fear to nature. fear: 1. happen in a moment 2. scale can trigger our feeling of fear 3.

The reason of feeling afraid of something is very complicated. In physiological terms, fear is a feeling which can be generated in a short moment. By experiments, scientists found that fear can be traced to our amygdala, and the reactions of the amygdala are so quick that they are for all intents automatic. From zoology aspect，scale is one of the elements which can trigger our fear. It is an original feeling to all the creatures which are much larger than us since the ancient world, since " large " represents "dangerous" . Also, our instinct to avoid all the possible harm make us keep away from things we don't know. "Unknown" means " dangerous".