#manvsnature

"They dared question me today -- me! Aristotle! -- on why I refer to Earth as ours. I laughed, a deep, booming laugh that echoed through the symposium walls. 'Look around,' I said. 'The world belongs to Homo sapiens because we took it. Beasts may claw and howl, but they lack the foresight to pave roads, brew beer, or sculpt marble statues in their own image. That’s the game, my friends. This little bitch of a planet belongs to us because we said so."

Ascribed in the "Official Record of Big Brains and Bigger Balls, Volume II."

“The sketches ... show the contrast of the benevolence of nature, and the ingenuity of man. Under the spreading oak on the left every hour of the day is shady & cool, to the right may be easily recognized the old arrangment of a Virginian plantation. It appears as if the War waged by Agriculture against our forests, had been a War of extermination ...”

From: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. An essay on landscape, explained in tinted drawings. Richmond, Va., 1798-1799

December 22, 2018

FERN’S COCKTAILS, LONG BEACH

by Juan Travieso

“Fascinated by the extinction of countless endangered species and the often irrevocable influence of human intervention, Travieso presents the reality of a world in transition.” —JuanTravieso.com