One thing that’s always stuck with me is the battle of ‘man vs. nature’ since it was a theme in books and literature I read during elementary and high school as well as a science vs. nature thing.

With all the advances in technology and science, the power of nature still rules supreme. There’s a really cool video piece some friends of mine made, call S-11 Redux and at the end, the narrator says:

“And so… it really comes down to a very basic choice that we have to make as a civilization:
Either: we will learn to bury the animosities of our ethnocentric, militant traditions and come to understand that Earth’s survival depends on our collective, unified participation, or we will sustain this cycle of violence and revenge until humanity is returned to the status of primitivity and Earth reduced to a rubble of antiquity.”

Oh yeah, this is the caption for the pic above from my 31 project…

day 300 – Sunday, February 9, 2003
Wow, day 300! I walked past this noticing the patch of green along the sidewalk and had to go back and take a shot. This grass (and a few tiny purple flowers) were growing out of a hacked down pole hole on Natoma. I love how nature continues on even amidst the overpowering concrete of SOMA.