Land Ethic

As part of the worldview, people's land ethic has been formed throughout their life. Some people prefer to live in the suburbs, while others not.These all are influenced by people's experience.

I was brought up in an outer urban community, 30-minute away from downtown. I prefer to call it a little isolated paradise which used to be surrounded by acres and acres of fields where I always did kite flying with other kids. That picture occupies my mind every now and then. Besides, 30-minute way is not that far. People can have fun in downtown whenever they want. For me,land ethic is no more than a reasonably harmonious allocation between nature and human being world. It's worth noting that there doesn't exist a clear all-or-nothing dividing line with regard to the allocation.

Given the chance to live wherever I want, I would choose to live in Chinese traditional  courtyard dwelling houses in urban area. Usually, there lives four families together in one set of courtyard dwelling houses. Each of them occupies one side of the house with the courtyard at the center. This is a classic architecture typically in Beijing. I'm so into it, because it perfectly shows a harmonious relationship between human and nature as well as a friendly neighborhood relationship.In this way, people will learn to get along well with each other, also get close to nature in downtown. Personally speaking, a city doesn't necessarily have to be a land of skyscrapers. It's just a stereotype that city dwellers merely have little cubicles to live in.I wish I could live in a fancy courtyard dwelling house to enjoy a combination of city and nature.