Moose wrote:
>I've mentioned this before, but it's been a while. In The Phenomenon of
>Life, the first book in his monumental series, The Nature of Order,
>architect/philosopher Christopher Alexander takes the position that
>Southern England is the largest structure ever made by man, including
>many features, flora and fauna of nature, but designed and created by
>humans.
>
>The Dutch are not alone in this.
Maybe not in the nature but definitely in the scale of things
(however relative that may be ;-)). Hence the old saying that God
created most countries, but the Dutch created their own.
Point taken, though!
I'm glad you pointed out the Alexander reference. I immensely enjoyed
his Pattern Language and failed to follow up on him. Many thanks for
that!
Ton
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