enviroment

Nature responds to your respect and gratitude by creating a magical energy of blessings in return.

She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty - and refuge. "It's so peaceful out there and the air smells so good. I mean, it's polluted, but not as much as the city air. For me, it's completely different there," she said. "It's like you're free when you go out there. It's your own time. Sometimes I go there when I'm mad - and then, just with the peacefulness, I'm better. I can come back home happy, and my mom doesn't even know why."_____The she described her special part of the woods._____"I had a place. There was a big waterfall and a creek on one side of it. I'd dug a big hole there, and sometimes I'd take a tent back there, or a blanket, and just lie down in the hole, and look up at the trees and sky. Sometimes I'd fall asleep back there. I just felt free; it was like my place, and I could do what I wanted, with nobody to stop me. I used to go down there almost every day."_____The young poet's face flushed. Her voice thickened._____"And then they just cut the woods down. It was like they cut down part of me.

The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.

The foods that are nearby are best for human beings, and things that he has to struggle to obtain turn out to be the least beneficial of all.