“I like to think beauty is a moment, an idea or a scene, not really a place. Like a time in thick rain as thunder echoed throughout the night, or when the fog blotted out the sun and left the landscape an impeccable blue. Beauty in moments is what feeds my life” is what Cristian Villegas confessed me when I asked him what he thought the most beautiful place in the world was. This answer gave myself an unusual amount of insight on him as a person more than anything he could have ever told me. I asked him a continuous amount of questions containing where he was born, what his full name was and even what superhero power he’d want to have; I soon realized that none of that had any true value when it came to Cristian. The information that mattered …show more content…
When I asked him what he would do if he only had two hours left to live and he said that he would “give away all of his belongings and try to help as many people as possible,” which he followed with “then go find a nice corner”. That calm, peaceful and unselfish side of him shows even when he is being adventurous. Cristian easily gets carried away in the moment and it shows within some of the stories he’s told me. For example, when he was in the Red Rock Arches, he had gotten out of the car to get a sample of the Red sand that he was surrounded and hypnotized by. While he was attempting to collect the sand he realized that he was standing right in a sandstorm. Lost in the moment, a very dangerous moment at that, he was mesmerized at what was going on around him. Someone without a peaceful nature would drive right by this exquisite sight and not think twice about it. But to be taken back by such a beautiful moment shows true meaning in someone 's character, even if the owner of that character says “lolz” as if it were his full time
You tie your hiking boots into perfectly snug knots and gently stand up, brushing pebbles off of your knee. A deep breath of fresh air fills your lungs as your first step leads into the wilderness. The warm breeze reeks of dirt, nature at its finest. Leaves crunch beneath your powerful feet and stones fling off the trail, scuttling to a slow stop. Thoughts of the office vanish from your mind and Thanksgiving stumbles in. This round, beautiful earth where we freely trek makes being thankful easy
i.e., I have not yet been able to put myself in the financial situation I need to be in. For now, I visit when I can, mostly during my long vacations at Christmas. A couple of years ago during one of those, on a whim after spending a few days in Arches National Park, my wife and I detoured to the snowy, icy south rim of the Grand Canyon. We journeyed toward it from the east side but got turned back at the National Parks’ gate; the road was snowed under from there on up. After retracing our steps
The Colorado River's Help and Hindrance of Settlement in the Western United States Geographers can tell you that the one thing that most rivers and their adjacent flood plains in the world have in common is that they have rich histories associated with human settlement and development. This especially true in arid regions which are very dependent upon water. Two excellent examples are the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates rivers which show use the relationship between rivers and concentrations