Nature

You don't need no friends
get back your faith again
you have the power to believe
another dissidenttake back your evidence
it has no power to deceive
I'll believe it when I see it, for myself
I don't need no one to tell me about heaven
I look at my daughter, and I believe.
I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sunset and I perceive
I sit with them all night
everything they say is right
but in the morning they were wrong
I'll be right by your sidecome hell or water highdown any road you choose to roam
I'll believe it when I see it for myself
I don't need no one to tell me about heaven
I look at my daughter, and I believe.
I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sunset and I perceive, yeah
darling, I believe, Oh Lordsometimes it's hard to breathe, Lord
at the bottom of the sea, yeah yeah
I'll believe it when I see it for myself
I don't need no one to tell me about heaven
I look at my daughter, and I believe.
I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sunset and I perceive
I don't need no one to tell me about heaven
I look at my daughter, and I believe.
I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sunset I can see the sunset
I can see the sunset
I don't need no one
Ohhhh
I don't need no oneI don't need no one
I don't need no one
To tell me about heavenI believe
I believe it, yeah
The lyrics are formatted kind of strange but the song really speaks to me. I don't need someone walking up to me in a mall telling me about God...or someone knocking at my door. I honestly think that if people were to go out in to nature, remove the ipods, television and constant stimulation from media and technology, they'd see God in nature. It's sad but as a photographer I live out in a small town...nature is all around me every day. However the sadness comes from not really getting a chance to be out in it. Photography wise there is not really anywhere to go that makes it easy. When I lived in Nelson House, MB and was teaching a 2 minute drive or a bit of a walk and a person could be out in the wilds of nature. Here in Vegreville I'll be kicked off a farmers land for doing photography there. I can stay on the roads and capture pictures of fields and sunsets and that is beautiful and all, but I find nature harder and harder to access anymore. A person needs to really make a point of going to it and it seems less and less visible anymore. Wetlands and beautiful areas are being swallowed up and encircled by residential property and commercial buildings.
I really the world is very much heading in an unhealthy direction. We're removing the beauty of nature and the little nature left is protected parks and not very many people can afford anymore to visit national parks or get out to enjoy them. With the rednecked Alberta attitude most people precieve nature as beer, ATVs, 4X4s, guns and fishing and did I mention the beer? I find it hard to see anymore having a spiritual moment in nature while running through it astride a loud ATV....or dirtbike. I think nature is by far my fave thing to photograph but where I live almost the most frustrating to find. I need to win millions and find a private island somewhere to make my own private sanctuary of solitude...where I may roam with my canon and enjoy what God hath created...hehehehe. :) I love ranting in my blogs....I don't even care if they are read or commented on...just getting these thoughts out of my head is fun and kind of helpful...