Word: heals
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...Still, green or not, for some Greensburg will never heal. Former mayor Lonnie McCollum, one of the first to raise the idea of building green, quit his post three weeks after the tornado, citing exhaustion, and eventually moved with his wife to the neighboring town of Pratt. On recent Friday, McCollum spoke wistfully of the town in which he had lived his entire life. He can't let Greensburg go, but he can't return, either. "We had a Norman Rockwell existence," the 62-year-old says. "For me, it's completely gone. There's nothing out there...
...left behind. Part of that is fun - [seeing] what it takes for New York City to turn back into a forest. And the other part is all the toxins, poisons, carbon dioxides - how long would it take for all that to get reabsorbed, and for nature to really heal itself? - which is really the meat of this book: a backward way of looking at what we do by looking at what nature would do if we weren't here doing it anymore...
...write this book because I want human beings to disappear, I wanted to remove us temporarily so we could see how well the world could and would heal itself, restore itself without us, and then figure out how can we reinsert ourselves in harmonious balance with everything else, not in mortal combat with everything else, which is what we have right...
...undermine ourselves, and the end is going to be agonizing. He said, "If we stopped having babies now, every decade as there were fewer people left, the world would become wilder and more beautiful." I realized that's kind of what my book is about, the world would heal if we weren't here. But at the same time, hearing him put it that way reinforced what my impetus for writing the book was: I don't want that to happen. I don't want us to disappear. I'm a human being. I love life. I love lots...
...characterized much post-9/11 thinking about the relationships between Islam and the West. The United Nations agreed to sponsor the program, which it considered, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks to the Forum on Tuesday, "an important way to counter extremism and heal the divisions that threaten our world...