Camping in Manhattan

Via a photographer named Matthew Jensen, a site/exhibition called Nowhere in Manhattan includes pictures of verdant, lonely camping spots in and around one of the most populated lands on the planet.

Reminds me of seeing the poet Gary Snyder a few years back, at a reading in Santa Monica of his collection No Nature, when the subject of the homeless came up. Snyder suggested that perhaps we were thinking about them in the wrong way, as victims, when we should see them simply as people who didn't want to live conventionally, in buildings, with jobs, etc.

Snyder admitted this put him at risk of being perceived as uncaring, but suggested that if we really wanted to help the homeless, we could provide them with safe, hygienic bathrooms on the street.

I suspect the camper above, whoever he might be, would agree.

h/t: Rufus Lusk