As humans evolved, cities became evolved along with humans. Human progression is expressed through our cities. Cities are human’s nature, as with animals the wilderness is their natural habitat. Humans began in the wild, but ever since cities were made, are we native to the city and not the wilderness? So would not the city be our primary nature and wilderness the second nature? That being said, early humans’ primary nature was the wilderness and they deliberately created and second nature by evolving to create farms, permanent homes and villages. When nomadic life stopped, that was when second nature started to take shape.

Geometry is prominent within everything – within humans, nature and buildings. Geometry is present within our bodies and how it correlates to nature and also the geometry associated with structures strengthens, supports and adds longevity to the buildings. Geometry is necessary with all things.

Every person has their own idea of what a man made world looks like to them, and their ideas are probably similar. My idea of a man made world is buildings and a well-developed city structure. Peoples ideas of what a man made world is will continue to change as our culture evolves more. Usually our idea of what a man made world consists of is based on the city we live in and know most about.

We have become desensitized from nature through evolution but many people of today never grew up in nature so they could not become desensitized in the first place. Some people do not like to be in nature because they prefer climate control and do not prefer to “rough it? in nature. Some people go into nature to return to simplicity that they never had. But it is true that spawned from our climb to progress we have abandoned the nature that nurtured us long ago and as a result is our estrangement from nature. People need to stop taking nature for granted. It is not to say to return to nature, but to do this: “We need to pause and look back, to see where we have come from to apprehend where we might be going? (Crowe, 234.)

Humans strive to be progressive because of their need for perfection and to build aesthetically pleasing elements in everything. People are constantly engineering new designs to make everything more beautiful than the next.

Humans perhaps do not try to find harmony between the world and nature because of our estrangement and abandonment of it. We are faced with crisis of our own doing because while we have abandoned our harmony with nature, we certainly have no problems exploiting the land, and this over-exploitation has caused a great problem as Earth tries to deal with the wounds we have caused it. These problems may be hard to solve, but I do not think it is out of human control. Perhaps if they have enough technology to cause the problem then they have enough technology to fix the problems that ail the Earth because of humans. Humans have ravaged the Earth of their quest for order. In a society where everything is of our own doing, we have to deal with the repercussions of what we have created.