A monarch butterfly lands on a milkweed plant in a neighborhood park in Staten Island, New York. | Benji Jones/Vox
BROOKLYN, New York — When people imagine what nature looks like, this probably wouldn’t be it. On an overcast afternoon in August, I stood next to a strip of plants between the sidewalk and the street in Central Brooklyn, no more than a block from a six-lane highway. An ambulance wailed in the distance. It smelled of exhaust. This was New York City after all.
But this narrow patch of green was full of life — of what you might call nature. Furry bumblebees hovered around c...
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