We usually treat the human-developed environment as if it were separate from nature. We “leave” the developed world to go on a “nature walk,” for example. This distinction certainly works for us, but it might also conceal an important truth. If humans are natural and if exercising dominion over non-human creation is natural, then human development is neither unnatural nor non-natural. Our development, though a product of choice, is natural to creation; it perfects creation. Thus, the developed landscapes and towns (and perhaps even cities) are natural. This should shape what we develop on the
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