In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature\'s harsh realities.
Glass-tower cities, suburbs, shopping malls, Disneyland--all are among the most recent monuments in our efforts to escape t.
According to geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one way or another, sometimes foolishly, often creatively and ingeniously.
Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks.
In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature\'s harsh realities