Should Arid Regions Be Landscaped?

摘要

If You Need Convincing that land does fundamentally matter, visit Earth's arid regions. Better yet, live there awhile. You will be reminded how dependent human survival is upon the services land offers-or, in the desert, withholds. Perhaps more important is the reminder that our construction, our cultures, and our theories all rely deeply on the more-than-human world.rnModern humans readily believe that only human culture matters, but philosopher Hannah Arendt once observed that "the reality and reliability of the human world rests primarily on the fact that we are surrounded by things more permanent than the activity by which [our works] were produced." Most permanent, surrounding, and essential to human reality is the land itself.