It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.
~Alain de Botton, Swiss-born writer and producer
'In The Pleasures and Sorries of Work'
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| Ships abandoned following a permanent drop in water level in the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan |
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| Dentist's office, Detroit |
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| Flickr/Thomas Evans |
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| Derelict escalator in abandoned shopping mall |
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| Decrepit chemistry lab in Belgium |
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| Flickr/Frank N. Furter |
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| Hurricane Ike in Gilcrest, Texas, in September 2008 |
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| Amusement park abandoned following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans |
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| Flickr/Artistic Model |
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| Flickr/Steve Ives, demolition of a Best Western hotel in 2008 |
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| Abandoned Wal-Mart in Dickson City, Pennsylvania |
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| Photo by M Marshall Studios |
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