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Except that one person lives in a palace with a thousand rooms; another in a tent with
eight children. The middle-grounds where thoughts and hopes may come together
are just possibly heightened and attuned for our senses, in protected places; sacred
spaces; amidst the fanfare of wild creatures who co-evolved with all of our ancestors. Mozambicans know this to be true. So do New Yorkers. We have all inherited
this collection of genes that are atavistically guided from somewhere before the
paradoxes we have imposed on the legacy. Which is why a proposed sanctuary like
Malhazine—mirroring other biological sanctuaries all the way across Africa, 13
national parks in Gabon, and nearby Obô Natural Park of São Tomé—is so crucial a
key to moderating twenty-first century human contradictions (Fig. 17.3).
Fig. 17.3 Outside the Walls of Malhazine. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
17.3 The Search for a Sanctuary Amid Conurbations
Except that one person lives in a palace with a thousand rooms; another in a tent with
eight children. The middle-grounds where thoughts and hopes may come together
are just possibly heightened and attuned for our senses, in protected places; sacred
spaces; amidst the fanfare of wild creatures who co-evolved with all of our ancestors. Mozambicans know this to be true. So do New Yorkers. We have all inherited
this collection of genes that are atavistically guided from somewhere before the
paradoxes we have imposed on the legacy. Which is why a proposed sanctuary like
Malhazine—mirroring other biological sanctuaries all the way across Africa, 13
national parks in Gabon, and nearby Obô Natural Park of São Tomé—is so crucial a
key to moderating twenty-first century human contradictions (Fig. 17.3).
Fig. 17.3 Outside the Walls of Malhazine. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
17.3 The Search for a Sanctuary Amid Conurbations