Nature

I can not describe how much I love nature, but I will try. Nature to me means the unity of all living things. We, me and an oak tree and a horse and all have the same genetic code. A tree could 'read' my nucleic acid makeup because I have the same nucleic acids it has. (I learned all of this on Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" on Planet Green!)
So anyways, this unity of nature is so mindblowingly perplexing. We have such a rich diversity of life on EARTH. It is miraculous. How did we, this tiny little planet in an infinite universe of infinite galaxies create so much?! God, definitely. Because to me science is religion, and religion is science; not religion versus science. That is so short-sighted!

Back to the subject of my love for nature...to me just being outside is a pleasure. I find so much peace in sunlight and water and mountains and butterflies. Can you imagine how beautiful America was when the Indians roamed the land without claiming it and building on it. They lived in unity with nature. So glorious! (Of course, toilets are glorious, too.) Well two of my favorite movies are Into the Wild and I Heart Huckabees. You can see why...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65X60mN4ooE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hl5mAekm5A

Two years he walks the earth.
No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.
— Alexander Supertramp
May 1992