City and Countryside

This chapter is discussing different view of City and Countryside.

Ian L.McHARG describes the countryside is always exhilarating and joy could be found, trout can see in the shadow of a bridge, salmon leaping or a stag glimpsed fleetingly, the lamb climbing, a cap fully of wild strawberries and blueberries.

City is a no-place, despondent, dreary beyond description, grimy, gritty, squalid, enduringly, ugly and dispiriting.

Ian L.McHARG opts for the countryside for finding the more delight and challenge. He is hoping that human can create the humane city rather the city of bondage to toil.

An opinion from Ian L.McHARG is we need nature as much in the city as in countryside and to look deep to the values which we are holding. In his mind, city and countryside both are essential but start from today city should be nature and beleaguered.

In his personal testament, the power and importance sun, moon, and stars, the changing seasons, seedtime and harvest, clouds, rain and rivers, oceans and forest, creatures and herbs are the phenomenal universal to create the future.