3000 years ago the world was a giant place.   expansive forests untouched lands   skies were for the birds, trees were forever   and natures worst invention had yet to form a plan   but our population grew   and with it grew ambition and desire to conquer all we can   own what we cannot, throw the unnecessary away   today only 5% of the forests in our country exist   of what there was just 200 years ago   and beautiful feats of nature formed   by thousands of years of patient practice   are destroyed without a second thought for "precious" resources   that will make the economny grow   my grandparents had never seen a plane,   a skyscraper, or a motor car or a cellphone or tv   my parents worked so hard to destroy the gifts given to us   now my grandchildren will never see a tree   someday i'll take a small child   down to the last grass covered hill in my town   and say "the whole world was once like this and more"   but words and photographs won't make them understand   the dinosaurs have been around for thousands of more   years than we could ever hope to be   and isn't it ironic we're the ones destroying earth   instead of the planet killing me   a friend of mine used to deep sea dive   but he doesn't do it anymore   he gets tears in his eyes when you ask him why and says   "the ugliest stretch of ocean floor 10 years ago   is a thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful today"   that was just ten years ago   only ten fuckin' years ago