08-07-2007, 06:08 PM
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Friend or foe?
Beryl Harwood wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 8/7/07 16:39, in article ,
"Beryl Harwood" wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 6/7/07 19:50, in article
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"Muddymike" wrote:
I saw the most lovely sight as I drove home this afternoon. Coming
up the
lane towards me was a young deer, galloping along because another
car was
They played havoc with my last garden, so much so that I gave up the
veg plot. Yet it still inspired me when a Stag Red deer took stance
in the middle of the road and eyeballed me early one morning whilst
his harem of
six does crossed safely. It reminded me of the racehorse trainers
stopping
the traffic in Newmarket whilst his trainees cross behind him.
What a fabulous sight and why does nature have to be so *difficult*?
;-)
Agreed, a wonderful sight - but it is us that are difficult, not
nature. We keep wanting to use the space they need for other things,
roads,
homes, gardens, removing their natural habitat. It is a difficult
situation and such a pity we are unable to run our lives in a manner
that does not compete with theirs. This is in no way a criticism of
those trying to earn a living from the land.
Beryl
I suppose we're part of nature, too and deserve our own habitat
therefore. But what seems to me to be important is to teach children how
to live *with*
what is around them rather than in spite of it. As top of the food chain
I think it rather depends on us to do that.
True, whilst I know we can't go back to the kind of life lived by the
native americans had [still have in some places I think] I wish we could
follow the love/care and understanding of the earth that they had. I
still fully appreciate all the modern 'luxuries' like bathrooms,
dishwashers, cars etc,etc. It would be hard to give them up even if
sometimes I would love to be able to live a simpler life.
Beryl
There was a nice Native American proverb quoted on the Live Earth concert:
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'
--
Bob
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