It's too bad that in order to be Progressive you've apparently got to love Nature too. Myself, I don't much like swamps. I'm not sure if I'm all that big on fir-trees, either. I guess when it comes to nature I'm mostly in the Annie Dillard camp -- you know, amongst those that see quite a bit of amazing beauty in nature, but a good hunk of absolutely horrifying muck as well. It'd be cool to be allowed to be progressive and really prefer cities, urban landscapes--wo/man-made stuff. It'd be nice to be able to count oneself as progressive and mostly be focused on all the amazing particularities and beautiful variances in high-end designer goods, rather than those in nature. It'd be nice to know that no one could say of progressives -- "You've seen one progressive, you've seen them all"--and readily be believed. And I still think that progressives ought to be those who, when they see some poor starving lion snacking on some poor ...