At 04:55 pm 18/05/2005 -0400, Jed wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >*Everything* has been paved over and replaced with >fast-food joints, convenience stores and parking lots. They cleaned up the >air and water pollution, but apparently it never occurred to anyone that it >would be good idea to leave some natural landscape or green spaces so the >kids could see trees and grass and sky instead of overhead wires, concrete >and pachinko parlors.
Surely, man is part of nature, and the Eifel tower is as natural as an ant hill. Or do ants consider all those enormous anthills a blot on their landscape? Speaking as a civil engineer and a christian I'm all for levelling every hill and filling every valley. After all, it's only in the last hundred years or so that people have fallen in love with mountainous landscapes. I suppose if people don't have a god to worship then they will seize upon a golden calf - or nature - or even Elvis Presley and the Beatles. Cheers Frank Grimer
