My apologies to Stovohobo. I share his admiration of nature, but just tried this counterpoint as a creative exercise cause the character popped into my head, probably someone I’ve met at some point or a variation on them.

I agree, those mentioned are beautiful masterpieces of architecture, triumphs of humanity. I meant more the industrial, the stains on the earth that mankind has left behind. After all, they do much more damage than the wonders help, sadly. Anyway, I loved the writing in this and it was a nice viewpoint. Great job.

In a nutshell: most, if not all, ugly or imperfect things on the earth are man-made, but not all man-made things are ugly or imperfect. The Arc de Triomphe, for example: a beauty. Fire-belching, smoke-spewing factories: not so much. (Ok, that’s a bigger nutshell than maybe I intended, but still)

interesting point of view

i like this…and playing devil’s advocate definitely makes for great writing, this is proof of that.

I really enjoyed this. I think it was especially effective as a counterpoint to the original piece.

mount Rushmore, Statue of Liberty, any cathedral, esp Notre dame, the monuments in DC. man& woman can make wondourus things with their hands, can also destroy. theres a balance. we need facorites, but not pollution. I was born in a city and still love big cities.
very good defense of man made.