It's interesting when something is left to grow wild. And one goes back years later. Does that something become hideous? Or does that something become beautiful.I don't think I have ever had this experience. So I really wouldn't know.
This photograph was taken in High Line Park where this did, indeed, happen. But it was taken back from the wild, and it became manicured wild. Does that mean the wild wasn't beautiful enough for the average human. Or did the city merely get a good idea from nature?
"Thanks, Nature. That looks nice, but we'll take it from here," they said.
Nature's angry.
Nature was doing fine on its own.
Nature liked how things were shaping up down there--how things were coming together on their own.
Or perhaps Nature was trying to make a point.
And Nature always wins.
In the end.
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This is an interesting piece. It adresses a topic that has been on the "hot topic" list for years now, and it is one that I find painfully redundant. High Line Park is a nice example of municipal funds at work. Had we not "reclaimed" this area of nature it would have rotted and become a liability. Instead it is now a park, and somehow I don't think Nature is going to be particuarly "angry" about that endeavor. Your line, "Nature liked how things were shaping up down there...", implies that Nature is a foreign entity rather than the world itself. It makes it sound as if Nature is in fact synonomous with God. In either case the thought that, "we are meddling around in the natural order", is strikingly odd. If you believe in the Darwinian idea of evolution then we are a direct product of nature, and in that case you are essentially stating that Nature screwed up bad enough to create a species that would turn upon it. If this is the case then we are not really "turning upon it", instead we are merely following the actual "natural" course of life. On the other end of the spectrum is the fundamentalist view of Adam and Eve; the idea that God put man on earth. I will not claim to be an expert on the Bible, and I certainly am not setting out to second guess God, but I would say it to be very counter-intuative to place humans on earth without the intention of them using the land. In any case, I can fully agree with the fact that Nature always wins. And with this in mind I will give an answer to all the controversy: who cares? Self-preservation is one of our base instincts, and Nature's long arms of influence coupled with Time's power of change make a formidable team for the human race to stack up against. If you think we are stacking at all.
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