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Natural Wonder…

Nature…what is it, and what do we mean when we use the term nature or natural environment? The context and meaning of these words is no doubt different to each person you meet and each country you visit.

My mind automatically invisages a natural environment as being expansive, wild and practically untouched – nature in it’s rawest form – of which I am so used to back home within Australia. Prior to coming to Singapore, despite having done some research, and chatting with folks who had been to Singapore before, it had never crossed my mind how such a small and urban country would be able to incorporate and value the minimal nature that they had.

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Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell (performed by Counting Crows)

They took all the trees
Put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ’em

As a kid growing up hearing this song I enjoyed it and loved the boppy fun beat that gets stuck in your head. I also loved the ‘quirky’ lyrics that described a world different to the one I live in in Australia. A world where the trees were all cut down, so much so that people had to pay ‘a $1.50 to see them” in museums. I remember having conversations with my sisters about a world that looked like this, we just couldn’t imagine.

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