I needed a cleansing walk today too. The picture isn’t great but that’s a hawk in its nest and it’s too far away to make out clearly. I also added a pic of a colonial era foundation with trees that have been growing there that have time to grow. It’s been a long time since someone lived there.
I know ultimately it will, and that has brought me comfort over the years, but I'm still hurting over the thought that we may strip it bare and pollute to within the last margin of habitability for life before things are over. It's just so stupid and wasteful. I'd rather She revenge Herself sooner.
Right. Whenever I hear someone ask how will the Earth survive global warming, etc., I say the Earth will be fine. Humans are the ones with the problem!
Don’t worry, even nuclear winter is a lazy weekend for earth. At the outset nuclear winter lasts a decade tops. The rest break between the asteroid that killed dinosaurs and our first steps was 66 million years. We are not nearly as formidable as we think we are.
I remember at the start of Peter Brannen’s book “The Ends of the World” he’s talking to a geologist friend about what would remain of human civilisation into the far future if we went extinct. The answer was almost nothing. A few rare fossils and a few radiation signatures. Everything else gone.
But I’m also fascinated about how transitory some of nature is. Mountains seem so permanent but changes to them have been major agents of change to the world around them over time as well. They think carbon draw down from the Appalachian chain may have contributed to the Ordovician extinction!
This is why I have a mountain tattooed on my arm. To remind me of permanence and transience, and of my correct place in the world. Anyway sorry for getting carried away replying haha.
Every now and again my aunt posts an “off the front porch” view of the cabin she lives in, and it makes me want to sell everything I own and move out there.
She’s amazing. Worked most of her life in wildlife/wilderness-related jobs. Firewatch up in Glacier NP, conservation, ecology, etc.
The summer after my 5th grade year I spent a month with her and a research assistant in Red Rock Lakes NWR in Montana, feeding and observing behavior in a…
…peregrine falcon repopulation program. Had a hack site with five fledglings up on the side of a mountain. Fed every morning with dead quail/dove, and then the day spent in a meadow with binocs and a notebook. One of the best summers of my life.
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The summer after my 5th grade year I spent a month with her and a research assistant in Red Rock Lakes NWR in Montana, feeding and observing behavior in a…