My recent trip to the Yellowstone National Park left me in awe of nature. It has been a while since I had that feeling. Being a student at Utah State, and being able to see the insurmountable mountains every time I look out of my lab window, I had forgotten the feeling of being able to admire the different facets of nature. It had become an everyday occurrence to me, to see the mountains: green in spring, all shades of brown, red and yellow in fall and white in the winter; covered in a sheet of snow.
Only when I looked at the geysers in Yellowstone National Park,did I realize what I had missed all these years, living in Logan, and never visiting it. Being an outdoor person, I love to go on hikes, walks, bikerides, and runs in the canyon. The best part of this outing was Old Faithful, which is located in Wyoming in Yellowstone National Park. The beauty of this geyser can only be described in words. Camera could not capture it well enough. There was a huge crowd of people sitting around the geyser, watching it as it erupted. I was watching it too, and trying to understand why in the world would a hole in the land shoot out boiling water. I mean, the science is a different thing, but why would the Earth shoot out water? Was it trying to cry out loud? and tell the people in this world to stop exploiting the nature? It has been reported that the eruptions in geysers have been getting longer over time. What are we exactly doing to the nature when we use the natural resources ruthlessly? How are the coming generations going to react to the effects of what we have done to them by being selfish and only using mother nature for our greed?
Will humans ever become less greedy and follow the teachings of Gandhi and Buddha?
Only when I looked at the geysers in Yellowstone National Park,did I realize what I had missed all these years, living in Logan, and never visiting it. Being an outdoor person, I love to go on hikes, walks, bikerides, and runs in the canyon. The best part of this outing was Old Faithful, which is located in Wyoming in Yellowstone National Park. The beauty of this geyser can only be described in words. Camera could not capture it well enough. There was a huge crowd of people sitting around the geyser, watching it as it erupted. I was watching it too, and trying to understand why in the world would a hole in the land shoot out boiling water. I mean, the science is a different thing, but why would the Earth shoot out water? Was it trying to cry out loud? and tell the people in this world to stop exploiting the nature? It has been reported that the eruptions in geysers have been getting longer over time. What are we exactly doing to the nature when we use the natural resources ruthlessly? How are the coming generations going to react to the effects of what we have done to them by being selfish and only using mother nature for our greed?
Will humans ever become less greedy and follow the teachings of Gandhi and Buddha?
