Approaches to nature in India. The case of Chipko Andolan

<div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The article considers briefly the approach to nature and its relationship with </span><span>gender in the Ancient Indian tradition, considering then the phenomenon of Chipko Andolan, the Indian movement known by the image of women hugging trees to prevent them from falling, concluding with considerations from different perspectives, among them, the one from Ecofeminism, which shapes a notion of identity based on the link between each individual and his/her insertion in the natural environment, that implies an ethical proposal based on which interaction and on the revalue of difference.</span></p></div></div>