WORTH THINKING ABOUT: THE MOTHER NATURE MUSEUM
Chances are pretty good that you're reading this in a room
with artificial light and air "conditioning" (who first came
up with that silly word?). Here are author Faber Birren's
thoughts on how far the artificial world will go:
"Nearly all human effort seems to be leading toward the
controlled environment. It is inconceivable that this trend
can be reversed or stopped.
Nature is being left out in the country where man has more or
less decided that she belongs. The mountains and seashore
are becoming no longer the habitat of man but simply places
for him to visit on weekends and holidays. Man thinks that
he is too busy to be discommoded by nature. He has things to
do in a hurry and cannot submit to anything capricious,
natural or otherwise. It is wholly possible that within not
too many decades man will venture from his contrived abodes
into the vast stretches of nature, point through the clear
plastic shell of his conveyance, and say to his children,
'This may be hard to believe, but your ancestors used to live
out there!'"
>From Faber Birren, "Color & Human Response", Van Nostrand Reinhold; see
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471288640/newsscancom/
(We donate all revenue received from our book recommendations to Literacy
Action, which supports adult literacy.)
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