I have always been fascinated with the environment and the impact that human actions have on it.

I remember when I went on a canoeing trip with my environmental science class down the James River and into the Chesapeake Bay. We were accompanied by the Chesapeake Bay watershed manager, who was there to give us a lecture on the water system that we were riding upon. What the Chesapeake Bay watershed was, what rivers fed into it, and what its importance was. According to him, it was a polluted, graying body of water located between the Virginia mainland and the Eastern Shore that acted a collections facility for all the waste water on the Eastern half of Virginia. Towards the end of the ride, I was knocked out of my boat by a fellow student who I may or may not have shoved into the water thirty-minutes prior, and I came to fully understand what the watershed manager meant by polluted. I exited the water with a plastic wrap on my leg and a multitude of black particles littering my body. This realization of contamination, prompted my immediate inquiry. …show more content…
The most complicated entity on the planet, nature is not simply a conglomeration of living “green”; it has served, at one time or another, as the resources for the beginning of every human society in history. Nature has been the foundation upon which we have developed our greatest civilizations, and will be the foundation for every great civilization to come.

Yet my foremost desire when it comes to studying my interests in the environmental field is the need to study its workings; to further understand its processes and organizations. To better understand it so that I may better be able to defend it from the encroachment of human societies