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Cities are home of the ‘amplified man’, an unprecedented amalgam of biology and technology, transcending his biological ancestors. Beyond their boundaries, cities profoundly affect traditional rural economies and their often complex cultural adaptation to biological diversity.. As better roads are built, and access to urban products is assured, rural people increasingly abandon their own indigenous cultures, which have usually been derived from a highly developed understanding of their local environment. Under the impact of cities, rural people tend to acquire urban standards of living and the mind-set to go with these.
- Excerpt From: Creating Sustainable Cities, by Herbert Girardet
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But the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach: it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need – only if we had the eyes to see. Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us – if only we were worthy of it. Now when I write of paradise I mean Paradise, not the banal Heaven of the saints. When I write “paradise” I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanos and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes – disease and death and the rotting of the flesh.
- Excerpt From: Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey
