How do you cope with the fact that so much of the world has been tamed by man and that we can never get the opportunity to witness the natural beauty it once held? I know that one day nature will reclaim what we will eventually abandon but it will surely take a great length of time for that to take place on a large scale.

Maybe it's just because I live in a particularly ugly and metropolitan part of the rust belt but the thought really eats away at me.