I close my eyes, lay back on the cool grass and just listen to the wonderful nature surrounding me. The birds flying overhead or playing gracefully on the ground make wonderfully relaxing chirping sounds. The sounds that the spring breeze make as it blows through the trees is quiet and calm enough to put me to sleep. I open my eyes to see the calmness of the elaborate community that is on all sides of me. Slowly, I am beginning to realize how well everything around me fits together so well, and that if I just let myself go, I can become one with the glorious nature that encompasses me.

I begin to take a fancy to noticing the ponds and realizing what they represent. “The emotional atmosphere of this picture is it’s own actual subject” (385). I mean, nobody has to decide what they stand for, they make that obvious on their own. The way that we interpret that is different for every single individual. The ponds, in my eyes, represent the cycles of life that we have to encounter as humans and the cycles that the nature around this pond has been through. Each pond stands for a different life stage. Birth, growth/learning, and finally death.

The turtles happily playing and getting along in the first pond, are for birth. The next pond is full of plant life surrounded by greenery to represent growth/learning. The final pond is very still, calm and quiet, to represent death. Not only do the ponds fit well together and help to unify humans (myself) to nature, but the small ripples send chills down my spine. I know that the wind is affecting the water, which is affecting me, in a good way. It sounds corny, but watching the water move really helps to make me feel one with the nature out here.

Each time I step outside, I try to make it my goal to become more and more unified with all the pretty nature that surrounds me. Enjoying these ponds and listening and feeling all that is outside with me, has helped me to reach this goal. “Every achievement is worthless unless it is a link in the chain of development” (391). I know my experience out here has been wonderful.