Niagara Escarpment Forsaken Story
It was raining. The rain was pouring heavily, as if Mother Nature gave up on her wild children. Some accept the rain as a gift, but some as a curse. Like fire, or like flowers. We once used nature, gave it our respect, but now it is all gone. The way we treat nature makes the mud disgusted. Hence, Mother Nature is crying her last tears, as they drop on her wounds of burned trees. There used to be something… something sweet and delightful… Hope. But it still exists. If humans decide to keep the last sections, the last pieces of Mother Nature secure, it shall repay the least of what is caused now days. One of the things humans are not blamed for in shaping nature is the Niagara Escarpment. Before the times of endless wars, of skin and flesh for greed and honour, of human rights and catastrophes, wild life and nature ruled the Earth. It was the glaciers who took the advantage of soil and pushed all of what once used to be a rock from the far north, or a tree, to the south. They shaped the ancient world, while we added a little taste of destruction after a while. When the ancient lake used to be at the escarpment, wildlife grew, plants and trees were best friends sharing water with each other, fishes settled their differences aside letting harmony and peace be their daily theme. But after the ancient lake dried out, new species replaced the older ones. All those animals' feces are now just in glass covers in museums, being presented by the thousands. Now they are bones, with no name, just a note from above saying what specie it is. Before, everything naturally grew there, trees, bushes, flowers, shrubs, but now it is all preserved for mankind to utilize for their own favour. As time ran by, for ages and millenniums, humans appeared. But the natives, who lived in the wild, knew how to correctly use nature, how to respect it, and how to not severely harm it without the thanks to the gods. Those first nations left some slight marks at the Escarpment, which advanced our knowledge of the native past. It used to be their homes, their backyards, but the European colonizers made it theirs. Now days the Escarpment is a home of many wildlife creatures, that daily by pass hikers and roads. The escarpment contains endangered species of different wildlife. It contains plants and trees that look as beautiful as the blue sky. But as always, mankind utilizes the earth's resources, to the humans' advantage. Farms upon farms, and lumber mills, are the main manufacturing areas you will find around the Escarpment. This place would have been another skyscraper urbanized city, but UNISECO made it an internationally protected landscape. The wildlife in the escarpment and the nature in there caught this major organization's attention. It is that valuable, and that important that humans, finally, redeemed a small part of their sins. The Niagara Escarpment is now a famous hiking area, with a natural lake that has caught allot of attention. A natural wonder it is, no one can disagree. Many people take this place to their heart and soul, and take a deep breath every time a beautiful scene is found. So the Escarpment continues to be an important natural wonder, which has been vital for nature, for many years.