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On a wall along the dusty streets of Amman, a woman delicately holds the world in her hands, contemplating perhaps the beauty and fragility of our natural world – and lack of a plan B.

Amman has very few green spaces. This is largely due to its desert environment, but also to the pressures of rapid urbanization (largely due to massive influxes of refugees from Irak, Syria, and other places) that favor buildings and roads over parks and recreation areas. This image is from a street art piece on a ventilation pipe that is part of a downtown outdoor/indoor shopping complex, known as The Boulevard. It is a place where city dwellers gather to stroll, eat, shop, and be together. I’m not sure what the image of these birds is meant to convey. Are they angry birds, barnyard roosters, or heroic birds of prey?

Amman has very few green spaces. This is largely due to its desert environment, but also to the pressures of rapid urbanization (largely due to massive influxes of refugees from Irak, Syria, and other places) that favor buildings and roads over parks and recreation areas. This image is from a street art piece on a ventilation pipe that is part of a downtown outdoor/indoor shopping complex, known as The Boulevard. There is no natural greenery, so street art flowers act as a substitute. It is a place where city dwellers gather to stroll, eat, shop, and be together. Why there is the slogan “together we stand, divided we fall”? I don’t know.

In the old city of Akko, images of danger (a lighthouse and lifesaving ring) with am embedded image of nature and birds. Do we read too much into this to think that the artist wanted to suggest the life saving aspects of nature?

Along a canal in Saint Denis, across the Street Art Avenue in the north of Paris, fish swim on a house.

Whales swim along a road next to a Paris canal, in the Saint Denis neighborhood. There are a number of large murals here, along a wall called “Street Art Avenue”.

On Street Art Avenue in Saint Denis, a psychedelic panther.

Along “Street Art Avenue”, a thoughtful chimp overlooking the canal.

A rough impressionistic river landscape on an old wall. The old image mirrors the old neighborhood in northern Paris, which at one time was a wild as the image.

On a storefront in the Coffee Region of Colombia, flowers and birds make a building beautiful.