Over the course, of more than ten thousand years, human history has changed our environment, but the change is not always apparent. Is nature better preserved in Manhattan, where I live now; suburban Los Angeles, where I spent much of my youth; or on the periphery of some Vermont hamlet that is home to toothpaste and ice cream makers? Most would pick Vermont. Concrete Jungle's editors Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman-internationally renowned New York artists whose work deals with issues of the representation of nature-argue otherwise. Humans are part of nature, not a separate entity, and thus Yosemite and the Bowery are equally natural.
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