We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as natural (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, secrets beyond counting.


The Inner Inner City (p. 74) - The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)

Robert Charles Wilson Quotes

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as natural...

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as natural...

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as natural...

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as natural...