In discussion with a fellow landscape architecturally like-minded friend, the topic of defining “natural”, a common thread here at D.U.S., within our landscape and in reference to urbanism and sustainability came up as a topic of conversation.

What is natural? If you consider human existence a natural occurrence then “unnatural” does not exist. Could it be that all human actions and environmental impacts considered to have detrimental earthly effects might actually be a higher level of an Earthly sustainable system, the purpose, removal of the cause?