Water gets into every building, followed by rot, birds, and trees, and pretty soon all that's left is the bathroom tiles. I realized that people really want that back."īuildings and cities without us around don't last long, his research showed. In the Puszcza Bialowieska, with its towering ash and linden trees and dense growth, Weisman felt he was in the forest of Grimm's tales.
On the border of Ukraine and Belarus is a small intact remnant-500,000 acres-of the primordial forest that once covered Europe from Siberia to Ireland. One was, "How can I write a best-seller about the environment?" The answer to that was the second question: "How would the rest of nature behave without the constant pressure we put on it?" Weisman's book, The World Without Us, grew out of two questions, he said.
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