mazdilla
03-31-2010, 11:34 PM
I'm no Dr. David Suzuki, or even close to the esteemed ecologist and entomologist E.O. Wilson who stated, "It's the little things that make the world go round."
I have 50 acres of abandonded pasture and wetland that borders on another 10,000+ acres of EP land.
No traffic here, but I have on my property:
The migration flight path of almost every bird and fowl species known in the eastern part of this continent (275/326), as it is the main migrating flyway through to the south, frogs of every species - except one indigenous species, 3 species of toad, every species of turtle indegenous to Ontario, every other amphibian known to Ontario except one, fowl, coyotes, foxes, three species of weasels, muskrats, beavers, chipmunks, squirrels, fishers, deer, rabbits, all indegenous species of eastern butterflies, ticks, ants, mosquitoes, deer flies, horse flies, bumble bees, wasps, sweat bees, hover flies, 8 species of dragon flies and damsel flies of the 14 known in North America, beetles to wazoo, over 40 species of spiders identified to date, centipedes and millipedes, pill bugs, black flies, gnats, no-see-ums, plant life that includes grasses, shrubs that bare consumable fruit, nut and fruit trees, and a plethora of herbacious species of every conceivable type that can exist in the conditions presented - you name it and I have yet to touch upon the hundreds of aqautic species that include water scorpions and giant water bugs; it's all here to enjoy, participate with, and 'contribute blood to' that grand celebration called nature!
Sounds like God's country, doesn't it? It is, 'Cause it appears no one else fackin' wants it!
It is all those little critters that keeps the world go round. If it wasn't for all of the insects that we so desperately try to exterminate, the mice that we trap and kill, the snakes that are soooooooooo repulsive, and the ants, beetles, cinch bugs, and aphids that we don't want in our garden, the world would be covered ass-deep in refuse and crap in one (1) week. No shit! - pun intended!
Due to our conceived 'civilized' nature and/or socially acceptable 'standards of living', we rediculously consume without rationing, we eliminate or exterminate uncomfortable, oppositional and annoying factors, and we deficate and discharge waste from numerous sources without thought of reprecussions, and have no plan or foresight of what will be for generations to come. Out of sight - out of mind.
Think about that the next time before you swat a fly, step on an ant, kill a snake simply because it exists and has been deemed evil by common consensus, toss a Timmy's cup out the window, buy that over-packaged product and do not recycle the byproducts and packaging, or if you are one of those drivers who aim for that frog, toad, or snake on the road simply because you can, then say, " I GOT IT!'.
Unfortunately, due to the 'civilized' approach to our existence and the 'collective standard of living' that we have established, the planet would be better off without us....
...and that's a shame. We are doomed.
Here is the Circle of Life simplified and something to think about:
Remember, we are a PART of nature, and not APART from nature.
When you kill something without consuming, you are killing part of your very own existence.
Sorry about the rant, but if you should come driving down my road, pop in, sit down in the sweet-scented shade of the black locust grove, have a beer, and listen to the 'traffic of life', that song of existence and the cacaphony of all those little 'everythings' that are actually keeping you alive.
My little woman says, "It's like having a brain shit."
She's right.
E.O. Wilson doesn't hold a candle to her thoughts.
I have 50 acres of abandonded pasture and wetland that borders on another 10,000+ acres of EP land.
No traffic here, but I have on my property:
The migration flight path of almost every bird and fowl species known in the eastern part of this continent (275/326), as it is the main migrating flyway through to the south, frogs of every species - except one indigenous species, 3 species of toad, every species of turtle indegenous to Ontario, every other amphibian known to Ontario except one, fowl, coyotes, foxes, three species of weasels, muskrats, beavers, chipmunks, squirrels, fishers, deer, rabbits, all indegenous species of eastern butterflies, ticks, ants, mosquitoes, deer flies, horse flies, bumble bees, wasps, sweat bees, hover flies, 8 species of dragon flies and damsel flies of the 14 known in North America, beetles to wazoo, over 40 species of spiders identified to date, centipedes and millipedes, pill bugs, black flies, gnats, no-see-ums, plant life that includes grasses, shrubs that bare consumable fruit, nut and fruit trees, and a plethora of herbacious species of every conceivable type that can exist in the conditions presented - you name it and I have yet to touch upon the hundreds of aqautic species that include water scorpions and giant water bugs; it's all here to enjoy, participate with, and 'contribute blood to' that grand celebration called nature!
Sounds like God's country, doesn't it? It is, 'Cause it appears no one else fackin' wants it!
It is all those little critters that keeps the world go round. If it wasn't for all of the insects that we so desperately try to exterminate, the mice that we trap and kill, the snakes that are soooooooooo repulsive, and the ants, beetles, cinch bugs, and aphids that we don't want in our garden, the world would be covered ass-deep in refuse and crap in one (1) week. No shit! - pun intended!
Due to our conceived 'civilized' nature and/or socially acceptable 'standards of living', we rediculously consume without rationing, we eliminate or exterminate uncomfortable, oppositional and annoying factors, and we deficate and discharge waste from numerous sources without thought of reprecussions, and have no plan or foresight of what will be for generations to come. Out of sight - out of mind.
Think about that the next time before you swat a fly, step on an ant, kill a snake simply because it exists and has been deemed evil by common consensus, toss a Timmy's cup out the window, buy that over-packaged product and do not recycle the byproducts and packaging, or if you are one of those drivers who aim for that frog, toad, or snake on the road simply because you can, then say, " I GOT IT!'.
Unfortunately, due to the 'civilized' approach to our existence and the 'collective standard of living' that we have established, the planet would be better off without us....
...and that's a shame. We are doomed.
Here is the Circle of Life simplified and something to think about:
Remember, we are a PART of nature, and not APART from nature.
When you kill something without consuming, you are killing part of your very own existence.
Sorry about the rant, but if you should come driving down my road, pop in, sit down in the sweet-scented shade of the black locust grove, have a beer, and listen to the 'traffic of life', that song of existence and the cacaphony of all those little 'everythings' that are actually keeping you alive.
My little woman says, "It's like having a brain shit."
She's right.
E.O. Wilson doesn't hold a candle to her thoughts.