The beauty of the natural world, leaves of grass, blue skies, open plains – we have always waxed on about this Nature. What about our Nature? A useful tool or a beast that needs to be controlled, technology – just as much a fixture of the environment for those grown up digital, as the grass, and the skies and the open plains – misses the poetic raptures given to the skies and the natural world under them. But the sky is above us. We are in the world too. And this, this is our Nature. More than a tool, more than a beast, this is our natural world. In the woods, a grizzly lurks behind a blooming blackberry bush. A deadly snake ripples through a peaceful marsh. Sunshine fades before a freezing rain. And helpless isolation sits just this side of serenity and solitude. Here, too. Grizzlies haunt our world. Snakes hide on the trails. Rainy nights freeze travelers. Crushing isolation leaves its scars. But there is sunshine, too. Sunshine, and serenity and solitude and peaceful places. The berry bushes bloom here, too.
