Biology. Just live it.

Sooo... I'm a science major.  Biology, to be exact.  This coming December I'll have my degree! (...finally.)  I know many people who would rather spend hours at the dentist getting their teeth drilled than learn about biology and its significance in the world.  To me, biology is the world.  It is every single living thing on this planet and whatever other planet there was or is life at any time.  Life fascinates me.  I feel like if I had to choose something to spend the rest of my life learning about it better be pretty important.  I'd say that you, me, and every other amazing life form are pretty damn important.

I had a discussion with my boyfriend the other day about whether biology or technology was more important.  I'll tell you right now - my argument could not be refuted when I said "You would never have technology without biology."  Without life, more specifically humans, there would never be any kind of technology.  I think that goes without saying, but apparently my boy needed a reminder.  I do understand the importance of technology.  I also understand the harm it is doing to the environment... rather, the harm WE are doing to the environment.  Sometimes I really just wish we were all hunter gatherers again.  The most change we would do to the environment would be killing a few animals (organic!) and picking berries off of trees (also organic!).  Such a simple life.  All you would need to be worried about is not being eaten and making sure you can find enough food to last you the winter!  We would all be so skinny. ^.^

This might be really sad but my dream is to find a desert island with an ecosystem consisting of (but by no means limited to): various fruit plants, palm trees, a beach, fish that live in shallow water, running fresh water, birds, insects, small mammals, and reptiles.  Oh right, and don't forget... me!  I want to move there and just find my own food and build my own shelter and not do bad things to our planet anymore.  Maybe one day it will happen.  I'm 99.99% sure it has a 99.99% chance of not working out.  Still, I dream of being rich enough to buy my own island.  It happens, right?  Totally.  That's what I thought.