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Show Ada Louise Huxtable New York Times critic says "...a sort of glassy death is already creeping along Madison avenue and around the corners...." (12) God is tired of seeing boxes all over his creation. And the Matthew quote entirely within itself is a foundation for four dimensional space. If an accurate transcription was made by Matthew Christ was not comparing flowers with people as has been the orthodox interpretation. On the contrary Christ was comparing flowers with buildings or why would he have mentioned Solomon's temple? He was simply making an off the cuff remark about the state of man's environment. Solomon's walls no matter how much he spent adorning them were not arrayed like nature. Nature is infinitely above the organisation of Egyptian Architecture. Its glorious isn't it after 5000 years of building man has come to the so called sky scraper and the subdivision. Loren Eiseley conjures up this vision: ""«¦.¦¦¦ Man in space is enabled to look upon the distant earth, a celestial orb, a revolving sphere. He sees it to be green, from the verdure on the land, algae greening the oceans, a green celestial fruit. Looking closely at the earth, he perceives blotches, black, gray and from these extend dynamic tentacles upon the green epidermis. These blemishes he recognizes as the cities and works of man and asks, "Is man but a planetary disease?" (13) -26- |