Growing up on the East Coast, #nature seemed small and controlled, squeezed into whatever space was left between buildings or sidewalk cracks. Alaska showed me the opposite: there, society fits around the nature. Juneau seemed to exist only because the mountains allowed it. Forests reached right up to neighborhoods. And glaciers, salmon, ravens, and bears felt like neighbors, not just attractions. There was a real respect for the land, wildlife, and Indigenous cultures. It made me see how differently we treat nature back home, and how much Colonialism attitudes still shape how we interact with the world around us.