| Special
places: Leverett |
Robert
Leverett |
| Sep
23, 2005 08:21 PDT |
Lee and Ernie,
I've been mulling over Ed's special places
request and I think I will
be able to reduce it to a list of 5 or 6, with no clear winner.
It
strikes me as ironic, if that's the right word, that the stark,
often
spectacular terrain of places sculpted by glaciers that we find
so
visually compelling were rubble heaps of destruction after the
glaciers
receded. From massive landscape destruction there evolves wild
beauty.
Those of us connected to nature see and appreciate it as an
never ending
kaleidoscope of shapes, textures, colors, and scents.
I suppose that human dominated landscapes have
the same impact on
people who value the human hand on the landscape. For me, the
human
touch can be aesthetic as with formal gardens, great
architecture and
sculpture, but alas, usually isn't. I still have those ant
colony housing
projects in my mind that Monica and I saw in Colorado, spreading
across
the plains like giant cancers. With a runaway population driving
the
need for urban expansion and the fools that run our government,
at all
levels, oblivious to the threat of far too many people, my brain
is too
simple to conceive of a direction and solution that would work
for both
people and the rest of the planet, but the tragic, sad images
coming
from the Gulf Coast hopefully will alert the public that we, as
a
species, are going in the wrong direction. Can you imagine being
in a
traffic jam tens of miles long with nowhere to go and a category
hurricane bearing down on you?
Sorry for straying from the original subject, but what's
happening in
the Gulf states has put me in a state of shock.
Bob
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