I started this blog as a way to keep me motivated and to share with my friends both here and aboard. To that end I think it was successful. But as I've gone more into this, I see it as trying to educate people. Let's face it, there is a lot of ignorance about nature out there. By posting photos I hope that it does several things, makes you open your eyes to the beauty around us, makes you question and to seek answers.
How many of you can with a high degree of confidence name the plants (native) in your yard?Your neighborhood? How about birds? Rodents. How many know the insects? Even the experts are still confounded. We know, but we don't know.
Love what we got, get to know what we've got. Protect it, fight hard,question,wonder. Give a damn.
Be thankful some do.
Edward Abbey worked as park ranger for a big chunk of his life. He liked to tell when someone asked him about a plant, he would respond, "What it is ma'm, no one knows, but men call it..."
There is so much to know, so much to see, so much to do. Start small,learn something new everyday. If you know something, you are more inclined to protect it and to love it.Or at least respect it.
And thus we give Thanks.
4 comments:
Great photo and post Kirk! Hope you had a great long weekend! ~m.
Thanks m! I'm changing tact, maybe covering new ground for me, working on other things. We'll see.
Had a ok weekend, the mountains of NH & VT got hammered with snow (18"+, Mt Washington had winds up to 130 mph) I like storms. Now got flu.
Hope your weekend was good!
Hope you are feeling better from the flu. Great post. It's distressing the number of local species that I can't name- and I'm sure I can do better than most. I despair at the disconnect I see between most folks and the natural world.
Thanks Doug, I'm feeling much better now.
It was good working at the museum and watching people have some interest sparked, but even living here in a small town in Maine, the amount of locals that don't know and don't care is sad.
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