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Over the past 14 weeks, I noticed that this course opened me up to the beauty of nature a bit more. With the exception of water bodies, I used to view nature as something just normal, or minute. Something I had never felt the need to look at twice. Through the field trips and readings, especially the Schobb Nature Preserve visit, this course opened me up to being able to see nature for the delicacy that it truly is.

Upon seeing a quote in my apartment complex's office saying, "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished" by Lao Tzu, I reflected on how true that is. Nature has a calm way of progressing, for the most part: crops, riverbeds, and especially century-old trees. They are all a positive representation of the most beautiful things taking the most time to grow.