This past summer, I spent a month traveling around Italy. The first place we went to was Cala Gonone, a small beach town in Sardinia. The city contains a stretch of some of the most beautiful beaches in Italy, which can only be reached by boat or by hiking for about 4-6 hours. When we got a chance to see the crystal clear water, the white pebble sand beaches, the cliffs, the trees, the caves, all  virtually untouched by globalization, I felt sublime. From a small rubber boat in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, I realized how vast the world is. How many places are still “pure”? How many mountain tops are still untouched by human hands? Remembering that nature is bigger and stronger than you keeps you humbled. But nature also creates a connection between human beings. As I watched the Italian cliff divers jump off the 40 ft cliffs, the tourists settle on the sand, the hikers climb up the rocks, I realized that we all share this planet and that’s what makes it so wonderful.