View of a Landscape: The Inhabitants

The extraction of limestone from the ENCI quarry ceased in 2018. Plants are returning and life is coming back from the once-bare and lifeless ground. How should we treat this new nature: do we let it take over the anthropised landscape or do we prefer to keep control? At the exhibition of her research into our relationship with the quarry, Dana Savic juxtaposes both scenarios and points out that right now we chose for regulation. Specific species are welcomed while others are seen as invasive intruders. Labelling certain plants as a dominant threat also illustrates how we see ourselves as separate from nature rather than as a part of it. Do we tend to forget that the human race is the most dominant species of all?