Our Natural Environment - Pros and Cons

Sure - on the one hand, you've got trees: green and leafy in the summer, when they make calm whooshy noises in the breeze; stark and spare in the winter, when they are aesthetically pleasing against a snowy backdrop. You've got babbling brooks, with their cool currents flowing over water-worn stones. You've got birds and squirrels, and maybe a rabbit or chipmunk; and you've got tadpoles, water bugs, fish, and - if you're lucky - even frogs.

And then, on the other hand, there's a blood-swollen leech stuck up your nose.