#Quote about cities
“The biota is stripped, then the topsoil goes, then the water. It is no accident that the ruins of the world’s oldest civilizations are mostly in deserts now. It wasn’t desert before that. A city tells itself it is a closed system that must decay in order for time to run straight, while simultaneously demanding eternal growth. This means it must outsource its decay for as long as possible.”
― Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World