Nature has been the subject of a whole buttload of touchy-feely, warm and fuzzy, happy, feel-good, safe-for-everybody, new-age, granola-crunching 'volvo wisdom' crap. And I think it's misguided; nature isn't just pretty birds and trees: nature is everything. My computer is a part of nature. Hitler's concentration camps were part of nature. Gigantic, towering smokestacks built for the sole purpose of destoying fossil fuels, just to watch them burn, yep, they're a part of nature, too. It's just nature modified into something more convenient. Everything's still the same: It's just different now.

That's not to say that I completely disregard nature; far from it. I just look at things in the grandest scale. I realize that this big rock we're on is just a spinning buffet with weather zipping around a giant ball of fire for no apparent reason. And as far as that goes, I might as well go out into the open and say that, in some cases, I respect animals more than humans. Humans are the meanest living things anywhere: we have the nerve to lock up a tiger, and charge a few bucks to let thousands of worthless humans shuffle past him every single day. I think the only reason there are even any tigers left in the world is the fact that they don't taste good.

My biggest problem with nature is those hippie freaks that absolutely refuse to be apart from it, and claim that it gives the greatest gifts. You know what kinda gifts nature'll give? skin cancer, rabies, snakebites, hurricanes, poisoning, avalanches, typhoons, earthquakes and lots of Vitamin D, which we all need for..... well,.... hmmm.... anyhow, it's the sunshine vitamin, so I'm sure we need it for something. These Jerry Garcia lookalikes are the same ones that drink artesian non-allergenic spring water, and eat ecineachea and all those other herbal wonder drugs that cure everything from a broken heart to the crack of dawn. Just for irony's sake, I wonder if anybody's choked to death on one of these wonder pills.

Finally, in conclusion, while I think that man should bend nature a little to suit his will, I think we've gone too far in abusing it. Rodeos are a good example; they're nothing more than a bunch of cowardly men in big hats abusing simple beasts in a fruitless search for manhood. Animal testing doesn't strike me very well either. For example, penicillin kills guinea pigs, and owls aren't bothered in the least by cyanide. Are we really sure we want to leave this kinda thing up to the animals?

-------------the SpaceCow-----------------------------
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