Thoughts on Nature

I find it difficult to believe that it rains or snows in big cities. I have seen it, but it still shocks. It seems that these places are too civilized for something as wild as weather. There is nothing, no nature, for rain or snow to fall for. What trace of nature can be found in a city is planned and orderly. It exists in parks and boulevards, and these do not need the watering nature gives for we have sprinklers, gardeners, fertilizer. Why then does it rain in cities? Perhaps, for nature to show that she survives and is free in spite of us.
How beautiful it would be to see walls torn down by vine and tree. How beautiful to see a city skyline turned to a mountain range and a street to a river bed. We are not as strong as we think. We are not so civilized that nature holds no power over us. She, His creation, still holds sway.