Natural Beauty in the Wilderness

While we talked about wilderness in class, I argued that there can still be some of the same aspects of adventure, risk, and feelings of smallness in the big city. This was my experience, as a Texas girl in New York City, this summer. I know there must be a difference. There is something different, a different side to us, that yearns for something beyond the city. I mulled over this later and decided natural beauty and lack of constraints are the biggest differences between city and wilderness. Natural beauty calls us to reflect and breathe deep, and this cannot really be found in cities formed by slabs of cement, no matter how many flowers and trees you plant. And while you can feel small in a city filled with millions of people and very tall buildings, it still does not compare to the insignificance experienced at the base of a mountain or at the edge of the ocean. To know these things were not created by man — and never could be — stirs awe and wonder, and a part of us comes alive at the thought of it, I believe.