Animal Architect Ure: As Human Living Space

ANIMAL ARCHITECT URE as Human Living Space

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The real difference is that animals, unlike humans, build in equilibrium with the environment. Both the materials they use and their structures do not produce hazardous or non-recyclable waste. They leave the environment none the worse for their constructions. A beaver dam may block the flow of a river causing mild flooding, or an ant colony may devastate a tree and eventually cause it to fall over. Such occurrences still exist within the balance of an ecosystem. In

contrast, humans completely alter the landscape. Perhaps it is because the architecture of animals is so perfectly ingrained within the ecosystem that we humans fail to see them for what they truly are ingenious, resourceful, complex, prodigious and sophisticated architects worthy of our respect and awe. http://www.wilsonart.com/design/statement/viewarticle.asp? articleid=82

"The heart is hard that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life, Nor feels their happiness augment his own." The most popular and perhaps the most interesting department of natural-history study is that which treats of the manner in which animals utilise the various materials of the universe for purposes of protection, for war and defence, for raiment, food, and even the luxuries of life.

Man, by his superior power of adaptation, excels the lower animals in providing for the comforts of life; but, on the other hand, in such practical arts as engineering and domestic architecture man frequently finds himself an amateur in comparison. With all man's inventions he has not been able to equal some of the remarkable results produced by some animals. The beaver, for example, shows a more profound knowledge of hydraulics than man himself. The power possessed by these craftsmen, not only in felling trees, but in duly selecting the best places for making homes and in appropriating substances suitable for their needs, is a never-ending marvel!

Thus we see that these same scientists are accrediting these little architects with the possession of a great intelligence, and they are thought to co-operate together in a manner expressive of the greatest degree of efficiency and brotherly feeling. Each of these scientists gives a theory that leaves untouched the essential question of the causes for coral-reefs assuming their

and it is reasonable to believe that they work according to a divine wisdom and plan, and that mankind does not yet understand their strange ways, various shapes;

which give us a higher conception of the universe than that held

Science has come to the point where it must recognise the perfect unity of all life, and that our fellowarchitects, engineers, and house-builders in the animal world also fill an important place in Nature's great scheme. by the ancients.

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Imagine..architecture and natural world as union…