I love nature, and live in the one of the biggest and most bustling cities in the world. I've seen 200 year old tulip trees in Manhattan, crowned with their peach colored blossoms, foxes on Long Island, mommma raccoons in Staten Island shepherding their bushy -behinded babies across the road. Every May and June during the full moon; the horseshoe crabs scuttle ashore to spawn - ungainly creatures that date back from before the age of dinosaurs, about the size and color of hubcaps, are strewn across the beaches of Brooklyn. In autumn, maples turn red and gold in the ridged woodlands of Queens. A river flows through the Bronx, amidst a forest,salamanders turn into newts there, and spring peepers trill through the night. Hawks circle, mayapples bloom, flowers unfold.



It's there if you look for it. And it's closer than you think.