A city filled with skyscrapers makes no effort to live in harmony with the environment. It goes against everything we could call natural. We control her. Look how we stand over her with our man-made monuments. She is nothing compared to us.
Skyscrapers are the very essence of arrogance, of hubris.
And yet I have always loved the New York skyline. Of course, I am as shocked and horrified as anyone that the World Trade Center came down. I am a businesswoman, a great believer in capitalism and democracy. But neither am I surprised that those towers came down. We are too complacent, too sure that our own ways need no examination.