As i walk down the main street of Telluride, CO, I glance around me. I'm surrounded by gygantic mountains, towering over me like sky scrappers. I notice the apple-green trees that I paraded around when i was young, and now they watch over me as long-time friends. Then i take into account the houses, the cars, the roads, and the friendly humans that inhabit my town. This is when the wheels in my brain start to spin. What was here before these houses? Before these roads and cars that stroll down main street? Before the ski-hill, and before the gondola?

Nature, Nature is what was here before the human mind and the human ways poisoned the box canyon that we all call home. We use and abuse the natural resources that our place of residence produces. The natural disasters are, in my opinion, the Earth telling us to back off, because she can only take so much use and abuse. She has the power to rip everything right out from under us, and most people can't grasp this concept, in this case, what you don't know does hurt you, in the long run. We need to take a step back and realize the beauty of our surroundings.