Forest For The Trees

I grew up in the country until I was around 12 years old. There wasn't much to do or friends near where I lived so I had a lot of time alone outside. I would spend hours looking at flowers or at tadpole in ponds just thinking about how amazing nature was. I had learned to appreciate nature at a very young age so I was outside all the time. My sister and I would explore this big creek that wound through the woods behind our house and we would make clearings and build houses out of sticks. One summer we were setting out to go to the woods to go to the little stream but my dad said we couldn't go there anymore. The guy who had owned the land sold it to a developer, the trees were cut down and the creek was filled and in two years time there was a neighborhood there.