I'm always amazed by how, when you post sprawl from a wetter climate, how much trees do to soften the visual impact. Not to say it's beautiful, but it could be a lot worse.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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