"Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone." - Donella Meadows
When out exploring, the most exciting thing that I come across is abandoned structures that are being reclaimed by nature. I often worry myself thinking about the loss of biodiversity, and how consumerism is negatively affecting our planet, and what the consequences will be for our children, and our children's children, and our children's children's children, etc. But then, when I walk in areas which have been left alone, and I see how nature miraculously reclaims and maintains what was hers to begin with, then I have a deep feeling of peace that all will be okay in the end. These stone structures are all that remain of a bridge built in the early 1800s, which was last used in 1910. Nature is doing a good job at making them hers again!
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