When I was in Seoul, I fell in love with the  “Chong-gye-cheon”. An elevated expressway, deconstructed and returned to a stream through the heart of the city. The river inspired me to start thinking about how to use nature and her natural resources and processes to combating climate change. This article help emphasize the importance of nature in our life. What would our world look life, if we were to stop, take a look, and use nature to our advantage as opposed to how we  try to control nature today.

By Ken Otterbourg

In a spectacular yearlong event, the National Geographic Channel series America’s National Parks will show you the parks’ natural wonders—both big and small—as you have never experienced them before.

There is magic here, the delight in being not quite lost and not quite found.

I am off trail, following an unnamed stream in northeast Ohio, scrambling over downed trees through a ravine of crumbling shale, the water milky with silt as it cascades over tiny falls. The sun dances with the stream and the hardwoods. When I take off my boots and splash in the small pools, I feel the cool of the mud between my toes. In the distance, just over the rise, the sound of the city comes and goes. Civilization is so close and seems so far, and in that toggle is the wonder of an urban park.

The place is an offshoot of Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which stretches like a skinny inkblot between the gridded sprawl of Cleveland and Akron. The park’s centerpiece is the resilient Cuyahoga River, once a punch line about environmental ruin after an oil-slicked pile of debris on the water caught fire. The park came five years later, in 1974, first mostly in name, and then slowly assembled from land across the compact valley…….

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/04/nature-urban-national-parks/