Havenwoods State forest
Ghosts
As we make grand cities, we clear land, pave surfaces and break ground to create foundations. Can we turn back time and recreate nature from once human dominated plots of land? Previous human interventions have left their marks in the Havenwoods State Forest. After massive amounts of paving were removed and foundations buried, there still remains ghostly images of the past. |
Angels
As part of its reforestation program, Havenwoods offers opportunities to local school children to plant trees. The kids act as angels responsible for the stewardship of the landscape. It is important to allow room for nature within our cities. We continuously invite plants, animals and insects back into the cityscape as we attempt to balance human density with local ecosystems. |
Insects
The resurgence of the prairie and forms of life that inhabit it are signs that nature and the city are not separate entities. |
“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago, and left no trace but the cellar walls, and a cellar in which the daylight falls.”
—Robert Frost Frost, R. (1915). “Ghost House.” In A Boy’s Will (pgs. 12-13). New York: Henry Holt and Company. |
“For I’d rather be thy child and pupil, in
the forest wild, than be the king of men elsewhere.” —Henry David Thoreau Thoreau, D. (1895). “Nature.” In Poems of Nature. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. |
“They are alive and well somewhere; The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, and if ever there was it led forward life.”
—Walt Whitman Whitman, W. (1855). “Song of Myself.” In Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge. |