The Price of our Conveniences

Taken from the Appalachian Trail, there's an entrance about ten minutes from my apartment building.

I wouldn't have been able to get here if it weren't for that road, but at the same time it's sad that a highway should run along such a beautiful mountainside. It's the price we pay for convenience. It's a terrible thing, yet it's also a thing people need to connect them-selves with far away people and places. Without our roads, cars, and cities we might not get as far in life as we could with them. I might not have ever found my place without them, yet they scar the precious surface of the planet. It's the price we pay for progress.