I love Jed's work. But I call bullshit on Mudede's idea that human and nonhuman domains are one and the same. In one sense, of course, he's right that humans are an integral part of nature and the evolution of a bowerbird has occurred over just as much time as the evolution of the human capacity to build a moon rocket or an artificial heart. As such, both natural and human creations can be seen as beautiful.

But yet I find a distinct and enormous difference. Say you wanted to construct a moon rocket: you could do it. There are blueprints and methods and schools and if you'd enough money, in a few years you would have a beautiful moon rocket. An astounding technological feat, but possible. What, to me, is sublime about (non-human) nature is it is entirely Impossible to create and to a large degree, to comprehend. You will never, and a thousand generations will never, build a mountain or a planet or a bowerbird in the same way as nature has without human influence. And the impossibility of it and the mystery of it are what make it absolutely sublime instead of simply beautiful.

Reminds me of 'Manufactured Landscapes', Ed Burtynsky's film and photos. Cool.