Human activity
published on 2013-08-28 14:53:28 by Jürgen Buchinger in deutsch.
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The history of human activity can, with great simplification, be called one of perpetual destruction and restoration. A sad qualification ought to be made, though, that since a certain point in time, the activity of restoration has been unable to keep up with that of destruction.
(Aleksandra Mańczak, The Ecological Imperative: Elements of Nature in Late Twentieth-Century Art, in: Leonardo, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2002), pp. 131-136, p. 131)

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