an idea for my park

WHEN WE THINK OF culture, we first think of human cultures, of our culture.
We think of computers, airplanes, fashions, teams, and pop stars. For most
of human cultural history, none of those things existed. For hundreds of
thousands of years, no human culture had a tool with moving parts. Well
into the twentieth century, various human foraging cultures from the
tropics to the Arctic retained tools of stone, wood, and bone. We might
pity human hunter-gatherers for their stuck simplicity, but we would err.
They held extensive knowledge, knew deep secrets of their lands and
creatures. And they experienced rich and rewarding lives; we know so
because when their ways were threatened, they fought to hold on to them, to
the death. Sadly, this remains true as the final tribal peoples get
overwhelmed by miners, loggers, ranchers, and planters who value money
above humanity, which is perhaps the most salient characteristic of our
culture. We are living in their end times and, to varying extents, we’re
all contributing to those endings. Ultimately our values may even prove
self-defeating.
The value of cultural diversity in the human family has been
underappreciated. Many cultures have been lost. The[…]”

Excerpt From
Becoming Wild
Carl Safina