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Unsettling Nature Stephen Burns (2) studying self-control as aThe German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity's displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis's homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might