Giant wind turbines on Danish coast violate flat disc-like wholeness of landscape by introducing vertical structures with no relation to existing geometry, destroying rather than preserving structure.

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• Giant wind turbines on flat north coast of Denmarkfinding0.838
• The hundreds of wind turbines at Altamont Pass are strongly structure-destroying. They do not leave the hills alone; they are not innocent in themselves.claim0.756
  Explicit judgment contrasting with the transmission towers, challenging ecological orthodoxy.
• Wind-blown sand ridges form with apparent wavelength equal to the distance an average grain is carried by wind; identical irregularity is then duplicated downwind, creating alternating repetition by a purely local mechanical process.finding0.733
  Classic mechanical explanation for alternating repetition in sand, used as a case where local mechanics suffices but cannot generalize
• Human beings can violate the tendency to preserve wholeness either by acting disrespectfully toward it or by failing to perceive it accurately, which explains why modern buildings often lack living structure.claim0.731
  Alexander's explanation for the 'temperamental' nature of the principle: it can be overridden by human agency
• The impact of the geometry of the environment—its living or not-living structure—has a trace-like, catalytic effect on emotional, social, spiritual, and physical well-being.claim0.715
  Analogy to trace elements and enzymes.
• In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.712
  Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.
• Traditional patterns generated living structure because they were based on fitness of the whole; 20th-century profit-oriented patterns damaged living structure because they optimized for profit, not wholenessclaim0.706
  Contrast drawn to motivate the need for a new generation of life-supporting patterns
• Natural phenomena such as wild waves and migrating geese are personal in the same sense as living buildings — they are deeply whole, deeply alive, and therefore deeply personalclaim0.704
  Extends the personal quality beyond artifacts to untouched nature