I’m very pro-environment, but I’m also very pro-us. I wholeheartedly reject the rhetoric of many environmentalists who like to claim that humankind is a plague or a virus on this planet. We are not. Or at the very least we don’t need to be. I’m more prone to see us as children who in many ways are just waking up.

That doesn’t excuse us from responsibility but I think our activities in the last century or so are in many ways an understandable overreaction. Since the dawn of time mankind has struggled with Mother Nature and until just recently, Mother Nature has always won. The struggle has been real, so real that the very concept of architecture emerged because of our need for shelter. Shelter from the scorching heat, from the biting cold, from rain in the air, from uneven ground, from harsh sunlight, from debilitating darkness, from pests wishing to eat our food and from predators willing to eat us as food.

I take our side in all this. Every student of history and every critic of human culture should remain conscious of the fact that comfort, safety, security, and abundance—all things which we take more or less for granted in the 21st century—have been, for the vast majority of humankind’s existence, rare and extremely tenuous things.

The struggle is real, Mother Nature has always won it, and so when we reached a level of technological understanding sufficient to tame her power over us, it’s entirely understandable that we tamed her with a vengeance—paving every road, empowering our homes, our work, vehicles, stabilizing our food, insulating ourselves from the power of the natural world and indulging in comforts and luxuries the likes of which no previous generation of humans ever dreamt possible.

But if we’ve learned anything from our history, acting out of vengeance is never the best idea. There is a list in the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 30—Things which make the earth quake and under which it cannot bear up—and the first two items on that list are: a slave when he becomes a king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food. The implication is clear, when someone has gone without freedom or power or sustenance for so long (as we have), When power comes they are bound to overreact and the pendulum will swing with a vengeance too far the other way.

And so we now find ourselves at the end of mankind’s first century of true freedom and power over most of what the earth has thrown at us since the beginning. We have paved our planet with such a vengeance, we’ve gone too far, and like the proverb says, the earth is quaking and cannot bear up. So now is the time, and we are the generation, to find the balance. To learn how to live with the earth, not as vengeful slaves but wise partners.

If you haven’t noticed, the earth is not concerned about our politics. Mother Nature has no ideology to promote. She was never angry with us and she’s not angry now. She simply is, doing her own thing and reacting the best she can to us doing our thing. The simple truth is if we’re going to survive each other it’s time to work together.



To step back from the cliff. To learn how our habitat and hers can be one and the same. To find our place in her arms. And to work together to build ourselves a beautiful life

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