"Whenever I reflect on Nature, I think of unspoiled places with timeless scenery and infinite potential, of towering forests, snowcapped mountains, fields of wildflowers and hungry bees to pollinate them. Whatever nature means to me, it almost always involves an absence of people. From a purely academic perspective, people and nature are irrefutably interconnected. We slithered out of the seas some 400 million years ago and continue to live, breathe, die. Sure we can be in nature, and some of us claim to "commune" with her. But to fully appreciate the gifts that nature provides, one must revere her strength, her genuine, untainted beauty."
"Nature's Splendors" by Abbe Pascal