Seeing how wilderness connects to settlements heightens the sense it must be preserved

Evidence

Viewing the land from above is among the most effective ways to appreciate its wild areas. … The connected, knit-together nature of the landscape is the most lasting impression of the aerial view. Everything is tied into everything else. The city runs into the suburb, the suburb peters out into the woods. … Once, over the Midwest, I could see factory smokestacks in the distance ahead of me—and out the left window, small ponds that were waterfowl spawning areas, dotted with thousands of birds. The wild areas seemed the more important and the more vulnerable for being so directly connected to the towns. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1640

Categorization

• XREF: This is the Fallows piece Hempton disputes; the aerial appreciation of connectivity echoes conservation arguments elsewhere. — connects to: A place has a soul and an intelligence that seeks to heal itself — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 192; Humans require both enclosed refuge and open prospect for wellbeing — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1514; Knowing a place deeply makes people care for and protect it. — Karla Armbruster, Book Review: LifePlace: Bioregional…, 9 (+2 more)
• FICTION: The juxtaposition of smokestacks and spawning ponds in one visual field could seed a scene about ecological interdependence.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1640

Broader Connections

• A place has a soul and an intelligence that seeks to heal itself #expands (0.40) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 192