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01-01-08
I have. There's not a height from which the chunks of Earth covered by city look the same as relatively pristine land, only one at which the land becomes blurred and blends into the sea. I'd like to know what height you think it becomes indistinguishable at, because this doesn't match my experience at all. Google Earth actually moved me significantly closer to being a tree hugger for seeing what a huge percentage of the Earth's surface humanity takes up. When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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