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Subject: [OM] Re: A number of shots from Roztocze/Poland
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 03:48:19 -0700
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I was triggered by a memory of some educational research which asked  
> children in several countries to identify or depict a 'natural  
> landscape.' Down here they tended to choose or draw forest scenes. In  
> Europe, especially Britain, they drew something like a cow in a  
> field. It caused some amusement and or sorrow among the green  
> community here that the young should see a highly modified landscape  
> as somehow natural.
>   
I've mentioned this before, but it's been a while. In The Phenomenon of 
Life, the first book in his series, The Nature of Order, Christopher 
Alexander takes the position that Southern England is one of the largest 
structures ever made by man, including nature, but man made.

Moose

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