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I fell in love with the world all over again this past weekend. There’s something incredibly humbling about wandering around a place as beautiful and as immense as Yosemite. Surrounded on all sides by beauty that is immeasurable, ancient, unconquerable. Walking under the enormous trees and dipping my hands in the freezing glacier water and standing below a waterfall hundreds of feet high I somehow felt both at home and like a trespasser. I couldn’t help but look at the park and see it twice; once how it is now with its paved paths and gift shops and guard rails, and then again how it might have been 200 years ago, untouched and untampered with. I tend to dislike how humans interact with nature, commoditizing it and slowly destroying it, but I noticed something in Yosemite that softened my view of society’s relationship with the wild…as I stood under those cliffs with my throat tight and eyes brimming with an overwhelming love and gratitude for the world that I get to stand on I looked around at the other people standing around me and saw the same expressions on their faces. And I looked around again at the park and instead of seeing how people were leaving their ugly mark I saw instead how we were preserving it. There was no trash anywhere despite the hundreds of people that pass through this valley every day, and all around there were people laughing and grinning and excitably pointing out beautiful sights to their loved ones. National Parks may be commoditized but they are a way for everyone, young and old and everything in between, to see and appreciate the world’s most incredible feats of nature and fall in love with the world anew, and that seems like a pretty wonderful thing to me.

Dark Helmet: Find anything yet?! Soldier: Nothing yet, sir. Dark Helmet: How about you?! Soldier: Not a thing sir! Dark Helmet: What about you guys?! Soldier: WE AIN’T FOUND SHIT!

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