Nature declines in western culture.

The best-known plants included dandelion, common poppy, cornflower, common daisy and stinging nettle. Among birds, sparrows, crows, tits, blackbird and white stork were mentioned most frequently. In contrast, many other species that regularly occur in agricultural landscapes hardly played a role in the respondents’ knowledge. “Our results show that many people are familiar with only a small fraction of the species that shape their landscape. Plants and birds that are particularly characteristic of the agricultural landscape are also particularly culturally significant. They are increasingly being overlooked, which points to an ever-more-disconnected relationship between our culture and our landscapes,” Younger adults overlook nearby biodiversity as species names fade from memory Not a surprise. Silent Running This was prophetic.