Jason Parham, Nature as being indifferent.

Some people would find it depressing to think that the wilderness doesn’t care about you, that it is indifferent to you being there and doesn’t care about your safety. But to me that is one of the things that make experiencing it so important. I would find it a positive attribute in a person to understand how small they are in reality, how insignificant they really are. Not that they are helpless or incapable of achieving anything but that they are not the center of the world. It is an awe-inspiring feeling to stand next to a mountain and feel its true size and power, what it does for me is makes me remember that the world is going to keep on turning no matter what I do, and that you need to concentrate on what is important in life and not about some stupid social problem that is occupying my mind at the time, that I need to look at the big picture.