“…19 The view of nature shifted to an ecological view, a biocentric rather than anthropocentric perspective within which human societies are only one element in the vast, interdependent, mutually regulating system and earth is assumed to be a living, breathing whole with its entities connected through the web of life. 20 The selfhealing property of nature is believed to restore the scarred, contaminated landscape and cleanse pollutants from the environment.…”