I want to go on a Wonder Trip.
A voyage in which I simply appreciate nature and all of the things that society teaches us to ignore, and thus, to destroy without a feeling regarding it.

I'm reading a book. I beautifully complicated book entitled "Earth In Mind" by David Orr.
It criticizes education like I have never read before.
It preaches that the way in which we are educating people is all wrong. That we are teaching them bits and subparts to every topic, without giving them the broader view to see how it affects everything around us.
Basically, it's preaching the goodness of Aldo Leopold, who truly did have it right.

It quotes the Indians. Who, personally, I believe have it right at their roots (and with modernity, are losing some of the beauty that is their culture, all due to white influence.)

"Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces: they were instructed in your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods....neither fit [to be] hunters, warriors, nor counselors, they were totally good for nothing."

-Chief of the Six Nations, 1744


Think about it. Everything we do has an effect upon nature. And, unfortunately, most of it is negative. Colleges are putting out students who can think wonders in their disciplines, but can't see how they relate to other areas. And, in turn, end up damaging the Earth in whole.

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are non of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself to be well and does not want to be told otherwise."

-Aldo Leopold, 1966

I'm not saying I'm innocent from these follies. That's far from the truth. And even though I'm being made aware of them, I'm still having a hard time changing my ways. I still enjoy driving places. I still appreciate my air conditioning and heating and my products that, in their making, harm the Earth. And even when I'm done with them and have thrown them away, will harm the Earth.

But I'm trying to change.