"The most destructive aspect of most modern cities is the profound schism they create between human beings and nature. In a human-created environment, surrounded mainly by fellow human beings and a few animal and plant species of our choice, we feel we have escaped the limits of nature. Weather and climate impinge on our lives with far less immediacy. Food comes in packages, disguised from its origins in the soil and cleansed of telltale biological signs of blood, feathers and scales. The source of our water and energy and the destination of our garbage and our sewage become distant and obscured. We forget that as biological beings, we are as dependent on clean air, water, soil and biodiversity as any other creature." - David Suzuki, "Earth Time"
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 05:28:28 +0000