Where do YOU want to live?

"In a pioneering study by Dr Gordon Orians, a zoologist at the University of Washington, the ‘ideal’ habitat of modern day humans was diagnosed. If given a free choice, people preferred to live in a home that was perched on top of a prominence, placed close to a lake, ocean, or other body of water, and surrounded by a parklike terrain. The trees they most want to see from their homes have spreading crowns, with numerous branches projecting from the trunk close to and horizontal with the ground, and furnished profusely with small or finely divided leaves. It so happens that this archetype fits a tropical savanna of the kind prevailing in Africa where humanity evolved for several millions of years. Primitive people living there are thought to have been most secure in open terrain, where the wide vista allowed them to search for food while watching for enemies.

Is this a coincidence, this similarity between the ancient home of human beings and their modern day preference? Animals of all kinds possess an inborn habitat selection on which their survival depends. It would seem strange if humans were an exception, or if humans brief existence in agricultural and urban surroundings had erased the propensity of our genes. Consider a New York multimillionaire who, provided by wealth with a free choice of habitation, selects a penthouse overlooking Central Park, in sight of the lake if possible, and rims the terrace with potted shrubs. Is the habitat we choose written in our genes?"

So, I ask you, where do you want to live? When finished answering that question, now ask yourself with this kind of DNA link to early man, do we still not believe that we are supposed to MOVE? Do we still not believe that we are becoming LAZIER each year? Do we still not believe that our DNA tells us that if we don't move that we will continue to become an unhealthy, faltering society?

I'll live here...