Nature is a Beautiful Place

It is a crisp Thursday morning, the sun is shining, the trees are still, and nature is quiet.  There is a cool breeze flowing through the air, not strong enough to move a tree branch but enough to make the bright red and yellow leaves flutter. A group of my friends and I are walking hoping to find the lake. After roughly ten minutes, we see a little glimmer through the trees which happens to be the lake. We all set up our chairs and hammocks on the shore facing out at the lake.

I then pulled out my notebook but didn’t start to write. I wanted to be aware of my surroundings and just get a feel of everything. That’s when a bug catches my eye, on the tree right next to me this little beetle is staring at me. *It looked so interested in what we were all doing in his home. He was  perched on a little piece of bark spying on us like a hawk looking for its next meal.

The woods seem so calm and carefree for all the animals and organisms that live together in it. The birds sing in their trees, the fish jump for their morning meals, everything seems so peaceful. Everything is perfect and everyone is living peacefully until someone comes in. Whether it is a human or even just another animal looking for a meal. People walking into the forest may not think they are doing any harm but with every step, they could possibly kill a plant or animal harmlessly sitting on the ground. There will always be the ones who don’t mean any harm and then the ones with the intention of inflicting harm. Such as if a coyote or a wolf were to walk into the woods hungry and ready to eat.

People may not have the intentions of hurting something but it may end up being worse than they expected. For example,  a friend is going out to eat and invites others but forgets one person on accident. It is a total accident but the person may not know that or think of it that way. That could really end up hurting them even though it was completely unintentional. 

Although that's not always the case in some situations, sometimes people do things like that just to hurt someone. Someone may say something about someone knowing that the person can hear them just to be mean and offend them.

If you take those two situations and compare them to the wolf and human they are pretty similar. This just shows how two completely different things happening in the world can be so similar.

When you think about it, nature and civilization are pretty similar in their own ways. They both can look so nice and peaceful, but if you start looking at things closer, they can turn out to be pretty harsh. Say you are out at the lake and everything seems peaceful and normal. The lake is so calm that it looks like a mirror with everything around it reflecting off. Everything just looks perfect. Until you take a deeper look and there could be a school of fish running away from a fish that is trying to eat them. That school of fish is just struggling to stay alive while you are enjoying the scenery with not a care in the world. 

The Nature and civilization are two wildly different places with a lot of different characteristics. Little does everyone now nature and civilization are way more alike than you may know.