@article{article_833383, title={Woodloverness As a Pathway to Civilization Connected with Nature}, journal={Journal of Anatolian Environmental and Animal Sciences}, volume={5}, pages={802–806}, year={2020}, DOI={10.35229/jaes.833383}, author={Usta, İlker}, keywords={Civilization, human-nature interactions, wood, woodlover approach, woodloverness}, abstract={Woodloverness, although is a vast subject that has been well known throughout the world for a long time in terms of learning based on experiences that emerge with its reflections in every phase of life with its behavioural dimension that integrates attitudes and behaviours and combines feelings and thoughts, is a term that has been named and defined almost very recently in the field of wood science and technology with the focus of woodlover approach with its inherentness that complements people whose geography is far from each other by keeping them together around the same purpose in terms of being a harmonious part of nature, and is a universal phenomenon that embraces all humanity. In a more general sense, woodloverness, in Usta’s words (Usta, 2019), is a thematic issue that contributes to the development of civilization and plays an important role in the progress of humanity, and is considered in the focus of the woodlover approach that aims to integrate human with nature. Obviously, with its deep and comprehensive presence, woodloverness is an interdisciplinary phenomenon that stands out clearly in the development of civilization by integrating with nature in the company of science and technology, together with art and literature, and it is a preliminary reinforcer of the effort to identify with nature and the environment, which constitute the essence of all humanity with its cultural dimension. In this study, woodloverness is presented as a deep and comprehensive phenomenon that provides endless benefits to humans through the integration of nature on the way to civilization, focusing on the woodlover approach.}, number={5}, publisher={Bülent VEREP}