The concept of the city and human's impact on nature has been revealed through the two texts "Big Yellow Taxi"--lyrics of a song performed by the band The Counting Crows, and the cartoon "Truth and Beauty Left Lane" by Michael Leunig. The two texts both reveal similar themes about a particular interpretation of the city. Each text deals with the concept of the city in a variety of ways but the overall message of both texts is quite similar. This main theme being that humankind have destroyed nature's beauty and tranquility and replaced it with a polluted and sinister world where 'truth an…
