Umwelt comes from the German word for environment, but Uexkull didn't use it simply to refer to an animal's surroundings. Instead, an Umwelt is specifically the part of those surroundings that an animal can sense and experience--its perceptual world. #EdYong

Umwelt comes from the German word for environment, but Uexkull didn't use it simply to refer to an animal's surroundings. Instead, an Umwelt is specifically the part of those surroundings that an animal can sense and experience--its perceptual world. #EdYong

— English Quotes (@english_quotes) Oct 7, 2023