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“ …in planning our green infrastructure, we should anticipate not just the value urban nature can offer today, but also the increased benefits it can provide in the face of the climate crisis.

We owe it to future generations to conserve more green space, adequately fund the forests we have already preserved, prioritize environmental justice initiatives and enhance the habitat of the wildlife with which we share the planet.” Andrew Wallach

Preserve and cultivate parks and natural areas. Renew and heal vacant land into viable open green spaces and community resources.

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“Street trees, in other words, may save lives.”

“Older, larger trees were more connected to reduced human mortality than saplings. “As trees aged and grew, the magnitude of the association between tree planting and mortality increased,”

So Please Preserve, Plant, and Cultivate Trees.

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“We need to design neighbourhoods that encourage play beyond playgrounds, considering all of the environments in which children spend their time, including public spaces. Cities should also aim to enhance a connection to nature by investing in more green and healthy environments that offer considerable play value. Green play areas can be embedded in the way we design and plan for public space, transforming the urban landscape into a learning opportunity and a vibrant asset.” -Dr Sara Candiracci, member of the Real Play Coalition

Play is circuitous, it is regenerative, and like energy, play is transforming, play is a flow with no fixed beginning or end. Play is change. Play is sustainable. Play is art. Play is stewardship. Play can heal. Play is imaginative reciprocity.

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“The forest is the root of all life; it is the womb that revives our biological instincts, that deepens our intellegence and increases our sensitivity as human beings.” - Akira Miyawaki

“The plants we call weeds grow in all the in-between spaces, and as Miyawaki came to appreciate, they play a healing role on land, similar to that of a scab on skin. “In nature, land does not want to remain barren…” Hannah Lewis, Mini-Forest Revolution 2022

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Thank you David Nowak of USDA and NPR for highlighting the loss of Urban Tree Canopy due to development and for sharing the importance of Trees! Have a listen and read the Journal of Forestry Study.

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“Landscape, in other words, shapes mindscape. Since it diminishes the potential for maturation and inhabitance, the ravagement of places is psycho- logically ravaging as well. If Shepard is right, and I believe that he is, we are paying a high price for the massive rearrangement of the North American landscape of the past fifty years.” - Paul Shepard / David Orr (2013) #614S13th

Place and Pedagogy by David Orr

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“The urban forest is the lungs of the city.” -TreePhilly (Grow the Urban Forest, 2022) TreePhilly.org

Trees in vacant lots are a part of the urban forest. Plant and Preserve Trees and Cultivate Open Green Spaces.

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“…Move slowly. Be aware of yourself and your partner, a weft and warp of society, a celebration of life…a reflection of one’s interior world.” - Lee Mingwei

Our Labyrinth by Lee Mingwei

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Circa 2007. 614 S. 13th. Hawthorne, Philadelphia.

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autumn tints and liminal states. preserve and cultivate playful land.

help the 614 S. 13th street parcels, a 13,000 square foot open green space, potential park, in Hawthorne, Philadelphia.

write letters, sign/share the petition, make art and creatively love the land from afar.

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“There are various benefits of transforming vacant lots into green spaces, including stormwater management and improved water quality. Planners understand the social, economic, and environmental benefits that nature and green spaces provide. In addition to these benefits, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of nature in improving mental health. Hence, integrating nature in all aspects of planning, including vacant lot transformation, is not a disagreeable or disputable concept. The question is how to do it in a resource constraint environment.”

Help preserve and cultivate a 13,000 square foot vacant lot in Hawthorne, Philadelphia, for natural play, sustainable art, community well-being, and wildly curious stewardship.

Please write letters, sign and share the petition, visit, and love the land from afar. The Philadelphia Redevelopment had posted No Trespassing signs along the pine fencing barring all communing and care.

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