What is the word or term that means Humankind's longing to be with nature?

[Shagbark Hickory]

I think it starts with an "H"
Or maybe it was a "B".

Or could it have been a "T"?

Oh gosh.

Please help. Thanks!

[rug]

1. Horny.

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. No, that's not it.

Feel free to try again.

[trof]

2. "Let's git nekkid"?

In Alabama, anyway.
:-)

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. LOL. 'Fraid that's not it either.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Longing for enlightenment???

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.
.
"Being at one with nature is a most magical and almost enlightened space to be.
It feels like you are 'in tune' with everything that is going on around you
moment by moment. I've spoken with some Tibetan monks about it at a monastery
I stayed at in Austria and they described the state of enlightenment to being
quite similar."
.
.
.

[Shagbark Hickory]

6. No, but it's something kinda like that. It's a longish word.

OR maybe it's a mediumish word.

I wish I could just remember.

[HopeHoops]

7. Answering nature's call?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. ?

to convene with nature.
to be in harmony with nature

:shrug:

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. No. The word only means one thing.

I should've mentioned that in my OP.

An example would be "necrophilia" because it only means one thing.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. anthropophuism

:shrug:

perhaps try the reverse dictionary:

http://dictionary.reference.com/reverse/

[Shagbark Hickory]

12. But that just means human nature.

I'm talking about a specific term that describes this sort of wanting to be in the great outdoors or this feeling that overcomes someone once they're pretty natural setting.
I read about it some time ago but I can't remember where.

[LiberalAndProud]

11. biophilia

[Shagbark Hickory]

13. Lol

:rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. ?

Biophilia , biophilia meaning , definition of biophilia , meaning of biophilia - Part of speech : noun .
Definition : according to a theory of the biologist E. O. Wilson) an innate and genetically determined affinity of human beings with the natural world .
( )


Biophilia hypothesis, the suggestion that there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia

[Shagbark Hickory]

18. If it was biophilia I would have remembered it.

But I'm still looking through some of the related articles in that wiki-link for clues.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. good luck.

[pitohui]

54. it is biophilia, you didn't remember it because it's sort of a fake word

i think dr. wilson invented the word himself to sell a book...

probably prior to the 20th century there was no such belief that human beings had an instinct to be in nature so there is prob. no common genuine english word to express this and this is why everyone's banging their heads to think of something

in some ways humanity has changed GREATLY almost incomprehensibly much over the past century...for most of human existence, for most of humanity, the natural world was feared

[LiberalAndProud]

22. Yes. But it sounds like something that it is not.

I loved the title of this article: "Arousing Biophilia: A Conversation with E.O. Wilson" It does sound like it belongs in a sex thread, no?

[Odin2005]

59. That's a Bjork album.

[Major Nikon]

14. Sounds like a sex thread

IBTL

[frogmarch]

16. philogaia

or maybe outdoorsyness

[Shagbark Hickory]

21. Neither of those.

[CJCRANE]

17. Holism / holistic

:shrug:

[Shagbark Hickory]

20. Nope.

It was a word that never ever comes up in conversation. That much I can remember.

[CJCRANE]

23. Okay, so it's probably not...

hankering for nature...

[Bucky]

24. Was it a greeky term or a germanish term?

[Shagbark Hickory]

27. I wish I could remember.

[freshwest]

25. Transcendence

[Shagbark Hickory]

28. Try again.

[freshwest]

31. I didn't know this was a contest. Good luck.

[Shagbark Hickory]

42. Void where prohibited.

:silly:

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. The romantic movement very much stemmed from that desire. Also transcendentalism.

And, of couse, Nazism. Hitler.

[RedCloud]

29. Tree Hugger!

Sums it up nicely otherwise search through Telluric and terra root words

[applegrove]

30. Communing?

[Lasher]

32. Biophilia

What do I win?

[astral]

33. Transmutaaaay ... wait, did you win already?

[Lasher]

36. No, Shagbark rejected this one upthread.

His reaction was met with some objection, however, and for good reason I think. Consider the definition: an innate love for the natural world, supposed to be felt universally by humankind

Sure seems to be the word he said he was looking for. If not, it's pretty darned close don'tchathink?

[Shagbark Hickory]

43. Yeah except if it was bioPHILIA I would have remembered it.

I'll definitely award points for finding a synonym and for teaching me a new word though.

[Deep13]

34. Don't know what it's called...

but I know what it is.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

35. If this is the nature...

Does it matter what word you use? Thought so.

[Duer 157099]

37. Subtle Magnetism? n/t

[MilesColtrane]

38. "What is the word or term that means Humankind's longing to be with nature?"

I don't know, but that longing is usually preceded by a lengthy stay by Humankind's mother-in-law.

[Iggo]

39. Communism.

:P

[Shagbark Hickory]

44. Nay.

[BluePatriot]

40. Perhaps, transcendentalism

http://bit.ly/fPPnnV (cuz DU hates this link with an underscore in it apparently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(essay) )

[Shagbark Hickory]

45. Someone already said transcendentalism.

And I'm afraid they wuz wrong :(

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

41. Primitivism? Euell Gibbons Syndrome?

:hi:

[Shagbark Hickory]

46. Nay & nay.

[Iggo]

47. Ya ever eat a pine tree?

Most parts are edible, ya know.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

48. Retsina - it's like drinking a pine tree

When turpentine just won't do.

:hi:

[MiddleFingerMom]

61. Agreed -- retsina is the WORST, but I never did find a Greek wine that I liked. n/t

[MiddleFingerMom]

51. Euell Gibbons -- "Even my WIFE tastes like wild hickory nuts." n/t

[Shagbark Hickory]

49. Not an "ism" or a syndrome All humans are born with it.

It might end in "oria".

Or not.

[handmade34]

57. I used the word in a post about a year ago

but I can't remember what it is... seriously! ...it's driving me crazy now

[EFerrari]

62. Oops, sorry wrong place.

[OneGrassRoot]

50. Why oh why don't we have DUzy awards any more? This thread is destined...

to be one of the most awesome.

:rofl:

[Lasher]

52. Longingtobewithnaturism?

I'll bet that's it.

[fNord]

53. immanentizing the eschaton..........

sux to be those people.........

[LiberalEsto]

55. paganism?

[pitohui]

56. pagans prior to 1920 didn't want to be w. nature

they wanted nature to stop kicking their ass

[LiberalEsto]

58. My Estonian grandfather was a pagan

and practiced the Estonian nature religion. It involved tree worship, etc. and was about as back to nature as possible.

[Odin2005]

60. kick for awesomeness!

[EFerrari]

63. Do you mean elelemental nature like going molecular

or pastoral nature like returning to the garden?

[Special Prosciuto]

64. symbiosis, symbiotic?

[Arugula Latte]

65. "Tater Tot"

You're welcome.

[sarge43]

66. Baked?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

67. Pantheism

no.

[Shagbark Hickory]

68. Not an "ism"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

69. bullshititus

:shrug:

[Shagbark Hickory]

70. Not an "itis"

All people are affected by it. It's not a syndrome, condition or belief system.