March, 2001
Arizona Water Resources,
Joe Gelt
ed.,
vol.
9,
no.
5,
12
pp.,
Water Resources Research Center,
Tucson, AZ,
March, 2001
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The poet Frank O'Hara was obviously on the side ofthe urbanist when he wrote, "I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy." The urban ecologist looks beyond this view, with its division of the world into the natural environment and areas inhabited by humans, a dichotomy variously expressed as city vs. country, urban vs. rural, or the great outdoors vs. crowded city spaces.