Brave New World

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Ever since human beings took it upon themselves to no longer sleep under the stars and build more civilized shelters, we have slowly began to leave nature behind us. For some reason though, we continue to feel this drive, almost a need to return to nature and experience the untouched land that our distant relatives’ once called home. For thousands of years as humans began to modernize we would leave our primitive selves behind, but still the cold dark wilderness would continue to call to our imaginations with its mystery. It is not surprising that with all the unknown land around these primitive villages; that they would tell stories of great beats and monsters that lurked in the unchartered forest nearby. These spooky tales would scare children, …show more content…

Thus, the idea began that by removing our communities from nature it would make life safer. Then in order to remove the worry of the unknown world, society would have to conquer and control all the land that remand unknown around it. Eventually, people would believe that humanity had to defeat the monsters around them in order to be safe and progress further in our development of Earth. Exploration and expansion would allow people to spread all over the world, and conquer our long time enemy nature. Lush forests became farms to grow food, bays became harbors to dock boats, villages became cities, and slowly we became civilized. Eventually turning our once green planet into a concrete kingdom. Finally, humanity had discovered the unknown, and felt safe from the threats that once lived in places previously we had not controlled. Although something seemed missing in this new life we created. Had humans in our urgency to leave the jungles, and become civilized accidentally have left something …show more content…

We realized that if we continued to set out and tame the chaos that lives in our world, we also would be destroying the beauty that goes with it. New ideas would emerge, and plots of land would be set aside to become nature preserves. People often visit these places, and tap into the beauty that our planet has to offer us. Although Earth and its untamed forests have been diminished by the cultures of man before us that did not see nature as beautifully as we do now; this idea of saving what we have left is something that must be continued for generations to

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