As much as I view nature positively, I do have to admit that the media and pop culture does have an affect on how I view nature, especially at night time. I thuroughly enjoy getting out into the wilderness, but I am a little scared of what is out there at night, mostly due to the fact that you can not see what you are getting yourself into, or observe your surrounds. In addition, the main reason that I enjoy recreation in the woods/wilderness is that I can look at and appreciate all of the beautiful natural surroundings.
Nighttime, though, is one of my necesarry evils about enjoying the wilderness; you usually have to sleep outdoors in the woods on a camping trip, after all. The root of my fears come from horror movies, and my friends and I are constantly joking about "the killer" that is lurking in the woods, right outside of our tent waiting to strike. If it weren't for horror movies depicking the nighttime woods as a place where you run into to escape "the killer" never to return, I don't think that I would have much reason to hear the wilderness.
I do beleive that the media and culture have the ability to change our perception of nature, namely because it has changed that of me and my friends. I have to struggle to find the serenity in the nighttime (usually by gazing at stars) to distract myself from the horror that (apparently) awaits on the other side of the river from my campsite.
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