Re: Trees Plants flowers and shrubs in Toronto, a green futu
First of all, I LOVE TREES! I also love plants, flowers, shrubs, grass, herbs, vegetables, and of course, fruit, but I also love diversity.
Have you ever seen an aerial photo of Toronto? Outside the business district, it looks like a forest, all you see are trees. I love that! What other city is so filled with trees and plants? We are not lacking in trees, as a matter of fact, every year there seems to be more and more trees. Just look at our rivers and revines, they are full of beautiful trees. Every park we have, has trees and we have a lot of parks. Many of our streets are filled with trees, especially in the east end.
How many public squares do you see in Toronto? Go to Europe and see how may magnificent squares there are that look great without the benifit of trees. I'm not saying you can't mix public squares with trees. I'm just saying, a little diversity is not a bad thing. Some squares could be great with trees but not all squares need to have trees and grass. It just seems Toronto has this mindset that anything without trees and grass is ugly but some of the most amazing squares I have ever seen were in Europe, and most were without trees or grass. Instead they had art, monuments, fountains, cafes, musicians, stores, restaurants, beautiful buildings, benches and lots of interesting people. If Toronto had a few public squares that were without trees, would that be so terrible? What about flowers, gardens, exotic plants? Can we do something a little different, or is being original a crime in Toronto? Talk about being afraid of change! We are all about diversity, that should not only apply to people and restaurants, but the landscape too. Instead of thinking outside the box, obliterate the mf, and go free-form.
As for putting Native art in parks, why not? Hell, we should have a park just for Native art, designed my a Native. Now that would be an original park, with a distict character and deep meaning. That would be amazing and maybe it could be used to give Torontonians a better understanding of Native culture and customs, as well as being beautiful. Yeah, you can even put a few trees in there too, as long as they're totem poles. LOL KIDDING!!! Ok, I'm almost through with this rant, I just want to touch on Expo 2015, well, maybe I should save that for another time, I have a lot to say.
