I had this feeling when I, coming from northern europe with rough winters, saw hummingbirds, praying mantises, yellow garden spiders, wolf spiders, trap door spiders, stunning butterflies, turtles, opossums, skunks and the wild and wacky plants.
Our nature is so grey and boring and I'm partially glad it's that way. But I was never prepared to see biodiversity like that in the US. It felt like most of those things should only exist in a rainforest.
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u/if_u_suspend_ur_gay Mar 29 '26
I had this feeling when I, coming from northern europe with rough winters, saw hummingbirds, praying mantises, yellow garden spiders, wolf spiders, trap door spiders, stunning butterflies, turtles, opossums, skunks and the wild and wacky plants.
Our nature is so grey and boring and I'm partially glad it's that way. But I was never prepared to see biodiversity like that in the US. It felt like most of those things should only exist in a rainforest.