Tundra:
"Only time-unimaginable stretches of time that conceal from human eyes the dynamic natural forces shaping the Earth-creates the illusion of stasis. But sometimes, if you're lucky, you come upon a place where time seems compressed, where you can feel in your bones how kinetic even geology really is."
Questions: What is a good example of something daily that we come across that is like compressed time? Is there ever compressed time? What are other things that act upon the Earth? At what rate are things growing, melting, and dying at?
Comments: This was such an interestingly worded quote. This makes me think in motion, realizing that everything around us is doing something as time passes. If you leave a facet dripping and a bowl under it, the bowl will fill. Yeah, I sort of ignored the whole article after this quote. I suppose this quote sort of made it more obvious that time is passing and things are changing, which is perfect for the tundra because the whole problem is ice melting and building up water pressure against dams. May result in future flooding. I think they portrayed that message well.

Rainforest:
"Even though all gorillas found in zoos around the world are western gorillas, little is known about their behavior in the wild."
Questions: What is being done to collect this information? What is being done to preserve natural animal behavior? Are they rehabilitating gorillas for the wild?
Comments: Throughout the article, I liked the journey. The paragraphs were ordered in an understandable fashion. This quote stood out to me because, I suppose it's more philosophical, but it got me thinking about animal rights in general. Weird, I know, but that's what it did. For me, it sort of started me along the other paragraphs where they talked about the diet, habitat, etc. It made me think that what they're observing is harmless, why aren't we doing something like this more efficiently? We may have the species, but we may be losing the unique animal behaviors if they really don't even know how they act in the wild.

Freshwater:
"This is considered ground zero for screwing up. But it can also be ground zero for success."
Questions: Even if we're at ground zero, doesn't that mean we haven't made any progress? Since we've done everything wrong, what has happened to make everything right?
Comments: I sort of didn't like this line. First time I heard something like this, I was a little like, "Oh, that's cool that's cool." but it was worded different. I'll be honest, this whole article was sort of long and boring. They had a lot of opinion and life story with facts sort of in there. It didn't help me read along. This line particular just made me go, "Gosh, get on with it." There were too many events to try and support a few points. I didn't really find the last line about "we're river people" inspirational either. It was hard to follow and didn't make me interested in the issue at all.