Not being a New Yorker, the most appalling thing for me when I visited Times Square for the first time was the striking impact of seeing nothing but artificial things, besides people of course.I sat down on the red carpet and for five minutes I tried to identify something natural: no llamas, not a bird, not a tree, no dogs, not even a cloud.
Such a stark impression was completely new for me, and I have never been in such a state of mesmerization.
A Mexican NYU student, Marco Castro, had the same impression and is offering a cool solution: Bus roots. He is putting plants on the roofs of buses all around the city.
Fotos: Inge Morath, A Llama in Times Square (1957)
Shane Ramkissoon / Bus Roots (2010)
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Everybody is a gardener, a good one or a bad one.
Other gardens: http://www.cityfarmer.info/category/roof-garden/
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