nature is what we have to save from the predators. nature is something we have to seek out, to draw out of the human barrens. nature is something we have to go, something indefinable we have lost along the way. nature is being privatized. nature is being held in trust like the dioramas in museums meant to educate the people about nature. is something buried deep within us, under water like the salt caves under the vast lakes where the sea recedes. nature is like dreams we are desperate to recover to show us the way in the coming day.