Understanding Nature

I believe that we as a generation are more our of touch with nature than previous generations. With the ongoing age of technology, our minds are more focused on the newest gadget and how many gigabytes our IPods have. We might think we know a lot about nature, but what we have learned is from the television or the internet. Most people in our generation rarely have encounters with nature outside their "norm". Taking a walk in the park and the only thin you can think about is why you have no cell phone service is not being very in touch with nature. Individually, we might think that we are in touch with nature, but as a whole generation. The nature illiterate are more common and could really care less about "getting in touch" with nature.

-Austin Richardson