Osvaldo’s Reviews > Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West > Status Update

"Gauged by how we feel about them, the distance we travel between city and country is measured more in the mind than on the ground. If this is true, then the way we cross the rural-urban boundary, the way we make the journey into and our of Chicago, exposes a great many hidden assumptions about how we see the later relationship between human beings and the earth upon which we live."