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leaving ordinary Americans more like subjects for the plans of others than participants in their own destiny.
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
To destroy the Aquarium and fort on the spur of a base impulse would be a crime against the city, against history, the reformers felt. They determined to prevent it. But they couldn’t. Moses’ possession of unlimited powers over park administrative decisions made it possible for him simply to announce an “administrative decision” on Battery Park and
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Parks are dead and artificial. Farms, when treated as private property, rob the people of their natural biological heritage-the countryside from which they came.
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Mary Oliver
Myq Kaplan • 1 card
Rachel Carson in her book entitled Silent Spring, “As man proceeds towards his announced goal of the conquest of nature, he has written a depressing record of destruction, directed not only against the earth he inhabits but against the life that shares it with him.”
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
