Nature
By Aiden Roya
By Aiden Roya
Nature is a calm place and it can also be a scary place for some people. Nature is a place where one can go on walks or just sit down and relax listening to the noises of the crunch of the leaves under their shoes as they walk through the woods or observe the animals that made their home in the trees or under rocks or in a cave. Everyone can make a home in nature because there are no rules in nature. If you take the time to just look at nature you can see how all the trees are not the same and different types of plants and animals interact with each other. If you watch those animals closely you can see how their lives are like ours. How they go out and do some work then come home with food for their little ones. If you just watch nature and see how everything works it'll teach you how other species of animals live and you can notice the different patterns of all the species that live in the same forest, like how two bears will do completely different things like how one will hunt fish and the other will hunt for barries. Some people become disenchanted when they walk through the woods because they only look on the surface and not at the smaller things. They might look at the big trees and not the chipmunks in those trees or the multi-colored leafs or they might not look down and wonder about how the roots connect.
When most people open their eyes to the wilderness they find appreciation for it. If you were to study a tree you can learn how many winters and summers it has gone through, you can learn what stories the scars can tell, like if a branch just broke off or if a bear scratched it. But if you look past those big scars you might see a tiny scratch from a squirrel that is running from a predator.
Predators are a reason some people wont go into the wilderness because they think that they will be hunted. But most of the time those predators like bears don't really attack people unless they are trying to protect their land or they are trying to protect their children. You can watch them from afar and relax while you're watching them. If you take a couple of strolls through woods then you know, then you will see that it's relaxing and not scary. Everyone can find a home in nature because it has no rules.