The City as an Eco System - WrathOfGnon’s Newsletter

Or, Nature Loves Edges: It is almost like there is some universal law of nature that dictates that the more fractal, the more fine grained, the more edged and bordered a habitat is, the more diverse and the more of a wealth of life it can afford to harbor.

John Glover (1767-1849), Swilker Oak, circa 1840, oil on canvas from the National Trust Tasmania Clarendon Collection. Nature Loves Edges If you were to look from afar at an English wheat field in August, it will appear both rich and productive: a sea of gently billowing golden yellow, neatly bordered by fuzzy green and brown hedgerows. It is easy to be impressed by the sheer power of modern agriculture, the promise of sweet smelling loaves of freshly baked bread or building material for the most adorable little rural cottages. Look closer though, and in almost every field in England, the…

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