Natures Water
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Submitted by patbrad on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Natures Water
Imagine yourself hot and tired at day's end, on the edge of a gradual granite sloped shelf in bright sunlight. You are surrounded by walls of rock in this tight box canyon. With pants pulled up, you immerse your bare legs in the swirling tingling water that rushes down a channel of carved rock and small boulders. This cascade slides in crystal sheets over round rock, splashes wildly and scatters in white foam against angular outcroppings, spilling finally into a pool of settling still water below. You hear a blend of roaring and more quiet pouring waters. Across the water, the cluster of sugar pine rustle and sway in the breeze. Your face is cool from the mist. With senses alive and breath fully relaxed, you are calm and energized. In this moment, in this embrace of natural elements, you have forgotten your stress and your troubles. You feel like time has stopped and you are far away by some Sierra mountain stream. It is time to go. With shoes back on you climb back up to the plaza level and the busy street beyond.
This is the realized vision of nature returned to the city. It is with this use of fountains, waterworks, and landscaped flowing water in our plaza parks and public buildings that some desperately needed balance and proportion of nature is returned to the urban environment. Though parks and greenery have always remained desirable in the cityscape, commercial interests and population pressures have prevented more of them. Today in our artificial thing-filled and fast paced lives people realize that city life is impossible without nature. Our city play and arts culture are vital to us but are not enough for our quality of life. It is through our joy of our senses in the experiencing nature's patterns, movements, and cycles, that we touch what is primal and essential in us. In time taken to camp or climb mountains, be in or on river or ocean we touch our primal rhythm which gives us both balance and physical and spiritual renewal. By...
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