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If you had to name a few things in nature that are almost always overlooked in day to day life, what would it be?

1. Hearing a heavy wind in the distance, through the trees when it's calm where you are.
2. How water can look like a sheet of glass when it's dark and there's no wind. You almost feel wrong disturbing it.

Maybe I'm just high. But warm weather is coming around real often here in Michigan, and for me, that means it's time for an, "experience". Warm weather and nature go hand in hand with an experience, and I was just outside smoking thinking of how many things are taken for granted..how the cycle of nature works and how everything just seems to work on it's own...


So what are some things you see in nature that are taken for granted?

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Tenderlungs

Why is the sky blue and the grass green? I know there are scientific reasons, but why does the science work out to these colors, and what other colors could it have been?

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Dark

I wonder if there is an actual reason for some of these colors. Or a reason why certain trees turn certain colors. I know it has to do with the amount of glucose or other products in the leaves, but is there an actual reason for that certain color?

Its weird to think of how many leaves we've seen in our life, or how many blades of grass.

I want to find a tree that no one's ever seen before. Probably impossible, but I'd like to think it's possible. Somewhere completely lost deep in the woods, one insignificant tree to the forest and every human being but I would make it significant. I'd remember how to get to that tree and I'd visit it and I'd bring important people in my life to that tree so they could remember it, and see how significant or insignificant something so 'petty' would be to them.

Billy Shears

A few of my favorites are the sound of a river from far away. I just love the sound of raging water without being able to see it. Also, on every hike there's at least one or two giant rocks that you just have to sit on and smoke. Ooh, and my absolute favorite part about nature are meadows. On my favorite hike, there is this really steep climb, but once you get to the top, the whole canyon opens up into this giant open area full of grass and trees. If you pick the right time of year, you can find all sorts of wildlife. It's the most beautiful spot I have ever been to.

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SpiralArchitect

Plants are green because of the chlorophyll they have inside them. The sun gives out mostly red and blue light, so the chlorophyll is able to absorb this energy and reflect green (the least amount of color given out by the sun), so we see green leaves

The reason the sky is blue because the gas molecules in the sky don't absorb it -- so it's instead scattered in different directions. Because the light is coming from directly above us we see a blue sky. I only know this stuff because the same principles applies to why glaciers appear blue and I have had to explain this to everyone who comes and visits our glaciers.

What do I think is overlooked in Nature or specifically enjoy about it?

• Having hundreds of mountains in my backyard and being completely isolated from the outside world
• The Fibonacci Sequence!
• The rhythm of the seasons ; this always blows my mind -- summer, winter, fall, spring -- a neverending cycle. I find alot of relationship to the season cycle and the cycle of life -- perhaps we are just in a certain stage of development/existence?
• I enjoy going out on hikes and instead looking at the big things around me (trees, mountains, oceans) I take out my magnifying glass and examine the miniscule details and intricacies of nature; moss, algea, tiny bugs and underwater animals
• Fish. I love fish. A lot of people don't like fish, but I find them fascinating creatures (and quite tasty)
• The sun. This giant ball of gases if fueling everything that is alive. I find this simply amazing. I try to wrap my head around its absolute massive size and end up getting a headache, then I try thinking about how it came to be and allowed the creation of life and I pass out :P
• The sound of a babbling brook. I live nearby several lakes and I love to just go meditate on the river rocks listening to them speak to me.

Good thread. I'm sure I will add more later, being the tree-huggin-granola-eatin' dude I am.

And yeah, it would be very very hard to discover a tree no one has seen before. I own this HUGE book called Trees and it has just about every single tree in existence in it - I love flipping through it and learning about the different kinds of trees.

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Trocisp

I was going to explain the "Sky is blue" and the "Grass is green," but spiral beat me to it. If you notice, when the sun is going down, the sky turns red? That's because it's not the atmosphere doesn't absorb all of it, it refracts most of it.

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Jake

I don't like anything better than the rains in which the sun is shining. Those beautiful, southern summer rains. We don't get too many of them this far north in Maryland, but we get enough....

Down in the Carolinas, they get a lot of them. Florida gets the most, I bet. They're so cool. It's like it's raining, but no one cares or notices....

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Dark

I know why the sky is blue and the leaves are green, but it still doesn't explain WHY it's that color, that just explains how it's that color.

And spiral I didn't mean a new type of tree, simply a tree of any sort that no one has seen before.

SpiralArchitect

I think it explains 'why' pretty well..... What don't you get?

And I think thats what I said 'a tree no one has seen before'. Isn't it?

I'm going to second Jake's 'sunny rains' -- we get those quite often here and I always have to step outside to bask in it's glory, my friends think I'm nuts, I think it's simply lovely.

Or how about the weeks before trees start to bloom but spring is peaking around the corner? Here's an example of what I mean. I just love this 'transitional' period, it has a sense of bleakness to it I just can't describe.

Has anyone nominated sand in your toes on a sunny day? I just got back from this silt beach near my house and smoked a bowl in the sun while letting the dog out. I took off my shoes just to step in the silt

Herbal Meditation

This hardly goes overlooked, but is rarely seen, at least in the areas around where I live:
Today as I was sitting in a small forest/park by the lakeside meditating three deers, flushed out of the bushes by a car rushing by, start prancing around me for about two or three minutes before suddenly panicing again and running into a clearing. It was beautiful, they are truly graceful animals, probably a mother with her young.