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Anthropocentric Myopia
Hayley Richardson | Fri, Mar 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, building, magazine, anthropocentric, anthropology, skyscrapers | 1
“We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.” –Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac.
It’s the time of year when I start fetishizing trees. As a current urbanite who’s spent years traipsing around Colorado and Maine, a three month barrage of concrete winter wreaks havoc upon my soul. In my March imaginings, I’m standing on a wooded hilltop, caressed by a rogue leaf, warmed by the sun. I’m awash in the kind of wonder I…
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