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__ How Today Would Be Different If We Were Closer To Nature __ I believe that today, the idea of nature seems like a novelty available to people as they want, but not something that they desire in their everyday life. The feeling towards it is that it is something we can take for granted (despite the threats of global warming) and we only have to deal with it at our own pleasure. Now there are many exceptions, I merely stated the general opinion in a broad sense. Many people enjoy the outdoors as their entire life, living as outdoor guides or other professions that require one to live in the outdoors. However, the larger majority of people with such an appreciation are more moderate, enjoying the outdoors full-time for just a few days a year or just on their daily jog. In the grand scale of things however, the general opinion is distaste. I mean, come on, who would want to destroy their phone if it rained on your camping trip, or who would want to have their food get infested with ants on the trail? Indeed, those are the worst case scenarios of the deal, when in reality proper preparation would foresee those events. In truth, any person who really does not think out of the box may feel this way and be pulled along with society and never realize the miracle that nature is. Nature did nothing to incur the human wrath upon itself, nor do we intentionally look to disagree with nature’s condition. The dislike has slowly grown as the rest of society went to the technology and everyday products that fight nature’s effects or would be ruined by just a healthy dose of the outdoors. Thankfully, a small awakening is occurring with the caused by a fear of global warming. The knowledge of our world spread through that medium has reached the ears of some people that would have gone on their life never noticing the grass in their lawn. I myself am no fanatic, but I can appreciate the beauty of our planet and how it functions. I too, hate when my lunch is ruined with no other food to eat, but to solve the problem that we have with nature we must use the same solution as we need for other problems. Look inside yourself, and think, hard. There’s no better place to do it than your own rural (as it probably is around these parts) backyard, and maybe, just maybe, a glimmer of all that is to offer in the streams and the leaves and the trees and the birds and the bugs and the sun and the stars and the everything will hold you for a second. If we had everyone had that outlook towards the great outdoors, in comparison with our present condition (as stated above), the world and our everyday life would both be different. On a global level, our environment would be much less vulnerable overall. We would have a smaller, if any, problems that endanger us. There would be less careless use of resources. Just from those broad points, think of the wars over oil and timber and farmland that would be resolved. Think of how much healthier our planet would be on whole. On a more personal level, the greatest change would be a wholesale change in philosophy. If you are an indoors person where your laptop will not get ruined or your nails will get soiled (not deriding, just stating a scenario), perhaps you would still be a more climate-controlled inclined person, but your use of resources and your everyday actions would be changed by your newfound respect for all that is. Would we be better off or not is for you to say. I, for one, would be a hypocrite if I told you to all buy a Prius and make human sacrifices to the trees four times a day. I joke, but I realize that I myself am not the most in-tune with nature person that there ever was. However, I do have a rudimentary appreciation for Mother Nature, and my point of view clearly shows that we would all be better off if all of us felt this way. So, I guess that my point is that maybe, after you do your homework today, just take a little walk, think, and notice the beauty of the little sapling and garden in you r front lawn. Then, think about your place in nature and all the things more and less beautiful than that sapling. As crazy as it sounds, realize what you and that baby tree have in common. The only difference is, after all, is that we always were Mother Nature’s favorite child. What do you think your change can do for the world? __Reflection__ Basically this writing was a very poor effort. I did not really excel in any area nor was I much worse in any area than the others. I did not have transitions, I organized my ideas and paragraphs badly, I made conventional errors, and many other basic mistakes.