BROOKLYN, New York — When folks think about what nature appears like, this most likely wouldn’t be it. On an overcast afternoon in August, I stood subsequent to a strip of vegetation between the sidewalk and the road in Central Brooklyn, not more than a block from a six-lane freeway. An ambulance wailed within the distance. It smelled of exhaust. This was New York Metropolis in spite of everything.
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