¡°Life is park!¡± proclaims Brutus magazine.
The English isn¡¯t good but the sentiment is. A veritable parkland is Japan. Wikipedia lists 34 national and 56 quasi-national parks. With these Brutus is not concerned. It celebrates the less imposing municipal park, which may be as spacious as Tokyo¡¯s Yoyogi Park (541,000 square meters), or no larger than your backyard. Is size everything?
It¡¯s nothing. Quality is all, and what¡¯s quality? Where one person sees flowers, another sees weeds. One person¡¯s birdsong is another¡¯s noise. There are parks you can spend an entire day in, walking, cycling, jogging, hardly aware that you¡¯re covering the same ground over and over. Flush with excitement at discovering the sheer beauty of nothing in particular, you bring a friend next time, who sees ... nothing in particular. It¡¯s chilling, but that¡¯s life.
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