tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33510674.post790234595354079313..comments2023-04-18T05:21:16.934-04:00Comments on Live in it then! : There are things I will never understandNostalgic for the Pleistocenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04369449719832190810noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33510674.post-77630566813269431602011-11-12T20:52:45.177-05:002011-11-12T20:52:45.177-05:00About 20 years ago my best friend, having moved fr...About 20 years ago my best friend, having moved from Newfoundland to Ontario, wrote to me that "apparently the fashion here is to cut down all the trees that God grew and replant them in straight lines that God would never have approved of". Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Good luck. And I mean that sincerely.ronniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14044863062652781155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33510674.post-4336532476193887292011-11-12T14:54:02.070-05:002011-11-12T14:54:02.070-05:00I can't understand people who think that woods...<i>I can't understand people who think that woods are ugly; that nature is too messy. That wildness is visually unappealing and needs to be neatened up.</i><br /><br />I can't either, but evidently most of our ancestors -- in European lineage, anyway -- thought so. If I remember correctly from Art History many, many years ago, the idea that "untamed" wilderness is beautiful instead of ugly and threatening only dates back to the 1800s. What we think of as "landscape" now would have been hideous to the Founding Fathers, for example.<br /><br />Their loss.Sherwood Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575868746160608731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33510674.post-86843185496840706462011-11-11T15:14:15.228-05:002011-11-11T15:14:15.228-05:00We're kind of steeling ourselves for repercuss...We're kind of steeling ourselves for repercussions. Fortunately, if anyone happens to either dump herbicide on the slope to the water's edge, or "accidentally" flick a match into the brush, we can undertake a replanting very fast. The toll that either one would take on the wildlife is what we can't undo. It breaks our hearts to see such a rare and pretty place destroyed, but at some point we'll write this area off and try a place we can better protect.Nostalgic for the Pleistocenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04369449719832190810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33510674.post-50238419236229857652011-11-11T09:19:16.285-05:002011-11-11T09:19:16.285-05:00Nature is so scary to some, and so anti-profit to ...Nature is so scary to some, and so anti-profit to others. And I thought we were the "stewards" of this planet. Guess for some that means "Let's wipe out nature before it gets us."<br />Oh well, climate change has begun in earnest. Pass out the life jackets, and ready the boats.southernyankeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07745308768638376460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33510674.post-71844545180718384652011-11-11T06:43:36.872-05:002011-11-11T06:43:36.872-05:00Nice of them to ask. A number of years ago, a deve...Nice of them to ask. A number of years ago, a developer up my way "made a mistake" a clearcut several acres of forest that he did not own. He paid a fine, but the damage was done. Or the view enhanced, depending on who you favored.<br /><br />Karma got him and he went belly up before he could build his development. But the trees are only now back in place, some four decades later.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16807727819590358834noreply@blogger.com