"Criteria for a Healthy Landscape" response

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            One of my favorite places to go is a hiking trail off Willowcreek road in Occidental. I feel that this is a "healthy landscape" for reasons that it brings so many different people together. People of different social class, race, gender, age, heritage and even sexual preference all come to enjoy their similar love for the trail. This trail takes people away from their busy lives and gives them a chance to only focus on the path and forget about their stresses. It gives people the chance to read its beauty, growth and unfound mysteries it holds. Once you reach this clearing at the top of the trail you can see the miles of rolling hills, the cold ocean and even a few homes if you look hard enough. This peek was named the sound of music, in my opinion it was named this because you can almost hear the music of the hills and the ocean. You can hear what nature is trying to sing to you if let it. This Willowcreek trail brings all different parts of nature into one area. What I mean about that is it brings people with their bikes, strollers, animals, people who are suffering from cancer, people who have survived from cancer, people who have lost a loved one and even those who have found love.

               Paul Groth's first criteria says, "A healthy landscape connects its participants to themselves as individuals" this statement really explains Kmart. What Groth means is by that statement is, landscape supports survival of basic life responsibilities such as making a living for yourself, food and shelter. The people that work at Kmart are trying to keep the dysfunctional store going in fear of losing their own jobs. Many Kmart stores have declared bankruptcy and if all Kmarts were to disappear nobody would even flinch, or would they? The people who work for Kmart would all be unemployed, not only the coworkers but their families would suffer too. When you walk into a store it is more then just a building, it's a persons life. What I mean by that is, many don't ecknowledge the employees stocking the shelves, taking inventory, filing paperwork and even ringing up your items. Each person who works in Kmart is there trying to make a living for themselves, and if each Kmart slowly went out of buisness it may not effect you, but others are effected.