"The distance between the busy activities of man and the pristine beauties of tranquil nature is often not miles, but rods, often but the ability to alter one's mental attitude towards it all. Indeed, one's love of nature may be such that he may at times not even care to orient himself to the crowds and noises of modern life but, on the contrary, to think of brooks, flowers, birds, and trees while all about him are men, pavement, and buildings.
Whatever one's vocation, in the busy activities of life, moments of bliss often come to the eyes or ears of him who lives nature, for it takes but a few notes of a wild song, a glance at a blooming vista, to awaken memories that are in a sense the realities of existence."
-Claude T. Barnes
Guess what? I have decided to minor in environmental science !
Hooray!
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