nature. The aesthetic became a refuge and a compensation for the loss of connection to nature, which came along with the development of the natural sciences (Braae 2011).
With the description of a split between sense and sensibility, the inherent contradictions of modern pastoralism seem less dramatic as one aspect, the pastoral, seems more rooted in the aesthetic, and the other aspect, the progressive, seems firmly rooted in the utilitarian. In this way,it could be the old split between sense and sensibility, between science and art, which, in the first place, has made a hybrid ideology such as modern pastoralism possible. It explains how it has been possible to hold on to romantic ideas of living in harmony with nature and, at the same time,overexploit the natural resources.