Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

The natural world is not indestructible.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Dogs are a window on the natural world.

I'm all for open space. But I don't want a dump, either.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.