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| | -- By JackSherrick - 15 Apr 2021 |
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> | I grew up in the "Prairie State" and did my best to help the area live up to its nickname. My family is involved with prairie conservation and maintains an island of native prairie amidst the sea of feed corn abutting it from all sides. I followed the prairie to Carleton College, which boasts an 800 acre arboretum teeming with native and nonnative grasses.
When I moved to New York, I left the Midwest and its flat open spaces behind. I was disoriented by the looming buildings that seemed to stretch vertically into infinity yet blocked out the horizon. I felt closed in. Most of the activity done in the prairie is occurring beneath your feet in the congested webs of roots pulling nutrients from the soil and pumping them up to the gently swaying stems above. But based on my months in New York, everything seems to be happening everywhere. I learned to find refuge amongst the various parks that mottle the concrete landscape and how to appreciate the cacophony (or symphony, don't want to get too sappy/carried away) of humanity that I myself was contributing to. |
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Everyone inhabits a space. |
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One's property is not one's absolutely, my right to do what I wish with what I have should not be so unrestrained that if severely impairs your right to do what you wish with what you have.
Illinois' nickname, The Prairie State, is a testament to the immense destructive power of these glaciers that spent millennia flattening the area with their weight and the |
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> | The health of the oceans depends on the health of rivers; the health of rivers depends on the health of small streams; the health of small streams depends on the health of their watersheds. The health of the water is exactly the same as the health of the land |
| | Space as Inspiration
Space as Security |