The Beauty of difference found in Nature

I am a rock climber. I climb for the love of pushing my limits both physically and mentally and I do it for the love of nature. I want to climb harder and be stronger for the reason of experiencing the beauty that nature has to offer me. Such as the way that pockets and plates were carved by water at Red River Gorge to glaciers carving the Yosemite Valley. Nature has carved the landscapes which we walk by slowing eroding away rock and soil over a thousand years, yet we carve the landscape in a matter of year with the McDonald houses found in the sprawling suburbs.
Climbing has undertaken a process of change related to the sprawling suburbs. We climb on plastic in a control environment to become stronger to only exceed pushing the our limit outside. I, unfortunately live in Cincinnati, OH and I am subjugated to climbing on plastic most of the year. What I would kill to climb outside for mos the year! My desire for Nature and experiencing it fully is derived from our own human tendency to be somewhere not artificial!
I think we, as a society, have become to accustom to artificially creating nature, by destroying a landscape, building a home with a small yard, planting some exotic flowers and getting rid of the indigenous population of plant species. Also, our consumption of food is bland compared to what was and still is available. The exploration of something different has been lost in us. We want our McDonaldized world were we expect the same in every place we go. Lets embrace the difference! Lets embrace what Nature has to offer us rather then constructing what we think is better.

Think more than less

This is an odd post since it is coming from a "professional" barista that doesn't even make living wage. However, at the same time its important because it is coming from someone who has nothing, but believes there to be much more then what I have. Of course I can write about material goods and the obsession that citizens in the developed world have for these things, but what I want to write about today is the obsession of money in today's world.
This idea has always been on my mind, but yet I have pushed it back into the deep parts of my brain, so I wouldn't have to think about the fact that I have nothing. However, Chris Guillebeau reminded me of this through his book The Art of Non-Conformity. Chris states, "Scarcity involves hoarding, and abundance involves sharing... abundance typically involves a refusal to view the world as a zero-sum competition. No one needs to lose for you to win (and vise-versa)". Once again, this about money, not natural resources.
The idea behind thinking abundance is to share. If we believe there is much out there, such as money than we believe that we have the capacity to share our wealth not just amongst ourselves, but with the world. This might seem idiotic to think of since we are currently in a recession, but it is not like the money that was there before has just disappeared. The money has gone somewhere and that somewhere is into someone's pocket. This reminds me of the term, "the rich get richer as the poor get poorer" and that is true. We see those who have wealth not only retain it but are able to grab more it.
We live in a capitalistic society, which is based upon accumulating more and more. Now, I am not saying that things should be given to public hands, in fact a lot of innovation has been derived from private hands and we have the lives that we have today because of it. My point is that we should focus on not trying to gain more and more, but rather take what we need to live a good life and give to those who need it more.