Blog 1 by David Hague

This week we have been going over mankind's connection with nature. The majority of it was one sided because of the amount of resources we take from mother nature. people cut down the tress for lumber, people mine for coal, gold, silver and etc. mother nature doesn't take anything from us unless you count natural disasters. In the gift of strawberries, they talk about how wild strawberries are supposed to be a gift only, and should not be picked to be sold to others. The reason why it should only be a gift was because mother earth grew that for people to share and gift to one another. A commodity is what is sold because you can get it in any store. But people take resources from mother earth to create products to sell to others in stores. whether it be a grocery store or a toy store. People are taking to many resources to quickly, because it takes a long time for mother earth to reproduce those resources. I thought this was one of the important topics we went over during our class discussions this week.