There are empty spaces we makeand empty spaces we grow accustomed to, as though they were alwaysthere—a gold mine you can descend an hour into by elevator before reaching its networkof tunnels—or always will be, as in the photosynthetic capacity of treesto absorb carbon dioxide into their diameter, their height. As a forest is torn […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/24/empty-spaces-christopher-kondrich/