We were not made to live in cities void of the vast natural beauty of wild places—a lifestyle contrary to our core nature and good mental health. Urban dwelling sets us out of balance, festering unfounded fear, unbounded contempt, and unrestrained unhappiness. God created nature, with all its healing solitude, to be inhabited by mankind. It’s no wonder that joyless city dwellers, motivated by opposition to the Creator more than the preservation of nature, lobby to restrict access to the beauty of such places. Their movement is less about conservation than an attempt to preserve the conditions which set people on edge, breed contempt one for another, and establish the perfect competitive conditions to breed an ungodly society.
Inspired by Isaiah 45:18: “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.”
Zephaniah 3:1 says, “Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city!”
I snapped this pic of Gardner Lake on the scenic All-American Beartooth Highway (US 212). Gardner Lake is one of the highest in the Beartooth Mountains at 10,550 feet above sea level, located in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming.
