Canada is the richest country in the world.
Plentiful natural resources, clean air, clean water, and low population makes the winning combination.
Traveling throughout Canada, I got a valuable lesson on how interconnected we are through water, air, and wind.
And how animals including ourselves are dependent on a healthy ecosystem. 
We must value each other.
I took these photos, including big horn sheep (how regal) on a Brewster tour on the scenic Icefield Parkway, which I highly recommend.
75% of The Columbia Icefield's runoff supplies the world water via rivers running into the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The Canadian fishing industry is one of the world's top suppliers.
The Canadian lumber industry is one of the world's top suppliers of wood and pulp to build homes, furniture, and make paper. Quesnel in British Columbia's Cariboo region, provides N. America the most wood products.
Without the natural resources of Canada, our world as we know it would collapse.
Without California, there'd be more scurvy in the world, and less colorful fruits and vegetables. 
For better or worse, we're all interconnected.
Today I took a boat tour on Lake Minnewanka, the largest lake in Banff National Park.
As we passed what looked like a grove of hundreds of trees called Trembling Aspen, the guide said, they're really the same tree being fed by one root.
The trees only appear separate.
Just like you and me.
Us.
We're all part of an intricate web of environmental and spiritual connections.
No one is alone.
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