ARTUR GLIKSON 
interaction is stimulated by the very expression of man’s new 
position and function in the biosphere. 
The awareness of the environment, as well as the creation of 
new and meaningful environmental structures, would engage 
and relate direct experience to science, to ethics and to art. 
Environmental renewal may thus become a way to fuse the 
separate branches of culture into a single, composite structure. 
The environmental problem is in character, and today even 
in extent, a world-wide problem of human interaction; en- 
vironmental renewal, therefore, is a means of approaching the 
unity of mankind on both the material and the spiritual levels. 
The realization of environmental relationship is a matter 
of carrying the values created in past contexts into the present; 
environmental renewal might therefore be based upon the 
recognition of human continuity, and find expression in the 
integration of old and new values. 
The mutual adjustment of opposites in a new environment, 
the increased material and spiritual contact among world 
regions, and the renewed attachment to a particular environ- 
ment, might constitute the positive contents of peace. 
No layout of the future world-city or of Utopia is presented 
here. Often the image of a progressive future is only an 
attempt to escape from the most decisive problems of the present. 
Environmental renewal is a continuous process originating in 
the matrix of present conditions. I have laid emphasis upon 
the problems of environmental values and attitudes. Once 
these values and attitudes are realized, environment, as a 
projection of an enriched human life, may assume an unforsee- 
able multitude of functions and forms. To effect evolution 
instead of expecting its advent, we must reintegrate values of 
the man-environment relationship created in the past, to cross- 
fertilize contemporary cultures and to relate all of them to the 
present situation of man and environment. 
Our concern with the fate of future generations must lead 
us to the intensification of our present lives. Thus man, 
instead of resigning himself to the tyranny of historical deter- 
minism, will impose a pattern of continuity on space and time. 
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