Rick Steves believes that travel can make the world a better place, and make us better people – and I agree.
Travel has a way of grounding us in reality. It forces us to step outside our day-to-day routines and into the raw, unfiltered world.
Tag: Climate
A Poet’s Plea to Save Our Planet
We protect what is ours: MY land, my house, my family, my country, my culture. But when it comes to nature our perspective is external: THE planet, the forest, the ocean, the air, the trees.
This mindset is the crux of our problem. We’ve distanced ourselves from the very thing that sustains us. We protect what we consider “mine” but treat the Earth as something separate, something external, something that’s not our responsibility.