Think Like A Mountain

     In a world where we are too busy with driving our cars and running our errands, we lose sight of what the world; what it does on it's own and how we interfere, how the squirrel benefits the world, or how every tree has it's own purpose. To think like a mountain is to observe life in it's entirety, and just the events we create.

     What this essay was about was a man who had killed a wolf; he was so busy with the desire to kill a wolf than what the wold means. As he watched the wolf die, he realized that the wold benefits the mountain. Every organism has a purpose and everything helps one another, even if it ends in another creature dying to serve as food for another. To kill a wolf merely for the pleasure and a story doesn't do anything for the mountain, or rather the ecosystem. We strive for what we call comfort, and at that is the cost of balance.

     I personally thought this essay was interesting; it gave a good perspective and new point of view on what we do and what kind of world we live in. If a wolf kills a deer, it helps the wolf and the deer; food and population control. It's how nature works. And if we come in and decide to kill the deer, then that's less food for the wolves. Or if we kill a wolf, then there goes a small fraction of the population control. Everything helps everything else, and we are really messing with the balance and what goes on by doing things for our own pleasure without a thought of the environment as a whole.

Life in the Deep Ocean

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     The ocean is a new world; creatures that have never seen the sun, creatures that we have only seen from video footage from submarines who's purpose is to discover new life. The ocean is vast, and has more bio density and biodiversity than even the rain forests.

     David Gallo and his team went into the ocean to discover new life in 1998, and while down there they discovered 198 new species that had never been discovered, just by peering through the eyes of a robotic camera. In the video, they talked about the diversity of life within the oceans, and how they live off of no sunlight and simply eating the bacteria that grows on the plants and other creatures. Even though it was filmed years ago, the information still holds valuable lessons such as the fact that the ocean is still unexplored, and in order to explore and learn about our planet, we have to preserve the oceans the best we can.

     I think it was fascinating. I didn't know about all of these strange little creatures living without sunlight, and feeding off bacteria and getting around without that vision we have. Life can form in even the darkest of depths, and to me that opened up a whole world of ideas. Literally anything could be lurking in the depths of the ocean that we just can't see. If you don't think that's exciting, then you need to watch this video. It shows you cute little octopi to beautiful coral reefs and plant life to creepy, spider-like crabs crawling around. It shows you what the ocean has to offer and all of the cute and creepy and beautiful creatures down there. It ignited a lot of thought about what might be under the water. The fact that there's more biodiversity and density than rain forests tells us a lot; life is capable of living in any condition, and even thrive. We know what's walking on the surface of the earth, and its about time to find out what's under the surface of our oceans.