What is the city? It is the opposite of the forest. The opposite of nature. The city is an artificialized, humanized territory. The city is a territory designed exclusively for humans. Humans have excluded all possibilities of other life forms in the city. Any other life that attempts to exist in the city is destroyed. If it does exist, it is thanks to the force of the organic, not because humans want it to.
I was raised in a house with a dirt floor, where I walked barefoot. Chickens and other animals lived with us inside the house. When a chicken left its droppings on the dirt floor, the wet part of the waste was absorbed by the earth. We would pick up the solid part and throw it in the backyard to use as fertilizer. To city people, this is horrifying. Step on chicken droppings? Impossible! There must be perfectly smooth ceramic tile to spot any other life, any other living being that might be there, to disinfect it and kill every microorganism. To kill even what cannot be seen. To walk barefoot, the floor must be disinfected: ceramic tiles were created because humans cannot step on the earth. Shoes were created because humans cannot step on the earth. Because the earth is the original yearning.
Humanity disconnected from nature precisely because it committed original sin. Its punishment was to be distanced from nature. This is why Adam was expelled from the Garden of Eden and humanism became a system, a realm disconnected from the animal kingdom. Within the plant kingdom, all plants fit; within the mineral kingdom, all minerals fit. Yet, within the animal kingdom, humans do not fit. Humans do not feel like entities of animal existence. This disconnection is an effect of cosmophobia.
