I owe a great deal to my grandparents. Being here this week has reinvigorated my passion for immersing in nature. While running today I had the thought, “there’s not a person on this planet who doesn’t find the Earth beautiful.” The rugged mountains or the waves in the ocean, the wild jungle or the empty sand dunes; every human on this rock is drawn to its features. We are part of this planet. We derive all connection in the cosmos from it. If we pause to recognize that, to take in the vastness, the exquisiteness, the uniqueness of the Earth…our problems seem smaller. We feel we have a chance to alter our course, to change the world.