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Thanks, Pat, for the wonderful Thoreau quotation, and as I read it my
thoughts went the same place as your sentence below the quote.
Notwithstanding Dave Webster's thoughts about how in some ways the North
Mountain will not be diminished much in its physical dimensions by the
Bilcon basalt extraction/export/marine terminal project, in other dimensions
the ecosystem/landscape/communities will be diminished in very large
measures in diverse ways. Both Aldo Leopold and Robert Bateman have
similarly written about thinking like a mountain and the worth of the last
grizzly on a mountain etc.
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
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From: "Patricia L. Chalmers" <Patricia.Chalmers@ukings.ns.ca>
Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:29:12 -0300
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: [NatureNS] View of Blomidon and North Mountain (was : east point of
Long Island, Grand Pre, Wed. August 30)
Hi there,
Jean Timpa's recent post about her day at Grand Pre, and her comments
about the view of Blomidon, reminded me of a passage I had recently read
from Henry David Thoreau's Journal (27 July 1852) in which he writes of
another mountain range, in Massachusetts :
"I would like to ask the assessors what is the value of that blue
mountain range in the northwest horizon to Concord, and see if they would
laugh or seriously set about calculating it. How poor, comparatively, should
we be without it! It would be descending to the scale of the merchant to say
it is worth its weight in gold. The privilege of beholding it, as an
ornament, a suggestion, a provocation, a heaven on earth. If I were one of
the fathers of the town I would not sell this right which we now enjoy for
all the merely material wealth and prosperity conceivable. If need were, we
would rather all go down together."
Jean's comments, and this quotation, bring to mind the recent
concerns about extracting basalt from the North Mountain range, beginning at
its Digby County end.
Cheers,
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
At 10:48 AM 31/08/2006 -0300, Jean Timpa wrote:
Yesterday afternoon my eldest son, Sean, and girlfriend, Amy, and I
spent several
delightful hours just sitting on the beach at the east end of Long Island,
soaking up the
lovely late summer sun and scenery, and watching the antics of the fishermen
and the
shorebirds.
...
Then there was that unspeakably lovely view of Blomidon, surely one
of the very
finest in Canada. Thunderheads were constantly forming and reforming, and
paler gray fog
had obviously invaded Scot's Bay for weather entertainment. At one point we
were pretty
sure the Parrsboro Shore/Amherst area was receiving a thundershower. Very
faint rumbling
could be heard, making us realize how far the distances really are across
that stretch of
water.
JET
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Thanks, Pat, for the wonderful Thoreau quotation, and as I read it my thoug=
hts went the same place as your sentence below the quote. Notwithstand=
ing Dave Webster's thoughts about how in some ways the North Mountain will n=
ot be diminished much in its physical dimensions by the Bilcon basalt extrac=
tion/export/marine terminal project, in other dimensions the ecosystem/lands=
cape/communities will be diminished in very large measures in diverse ways. =
Both Aldo Leopold and Robert Bateman have similarly written about thin=
king like a mountain and the worth of the last grizzly on a mountain etc.<BR=
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<BR>
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville<BR>
----------<BR>
<B>From: </B>"Patricia L. Chalmers" <Patricia.Chalmers@ukings.=
ns.ca><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR>
<B>Date: </B>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:29:12 -0300<BR>
<B>To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[NatureNS] View of Blomidon and North Mountain (was : east =
point of Long Island, Grand Pre, Wed. August 30)<BR>
<BR>
Hi there,<BR>
<BR>
Jean Timpa's recent post about h=
er day at Grand Pre, and her comments about the view of Blomidon, reminded m=
e of a passage I had recently read from Henry David Thoreau's Journal (27 Ju=
ly 1852) in which he writes of another mountain range, in Massachusetts :<BR=
>
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<FONT SIZE=3D"2"> </FONT>"I wo=
uld like to ask the assessors what is the value of that blue mountain range =
in the northwest horizon to Concord, and see if they would laugh or seriousl=
y set about calculating it. How poor, comparatively, should we be without it=
! It would be descending to the scale of the merchant to say it is worth its=
weight in gold. The privilege of beholding it, as an ornament, a suggestion=
, a provocation, a heaven on earth. If I were one of the fathers of the town=
I would not sell this right which we now enjoy for all the merely material =
wealth and prosperity conceivable. If need were, we would rather all go down=
together."<BR>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=3D"2"> </FONT>Jean's com=
ments, and this quotation, bring to mind the recent concerns about extractin=
g basalt from the North Mountain range, beginning at its Digby County end.<B=
R>
<BR>
Cheers,<BR>
<BR>
Patricia L. Chalmers<BR>
Halifax<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
At 10:48 AM 31/08/2006 -0300, Jean Timpa wrote:<BR>
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my eldest son, Sean, and girlfriend, Amy, and I spent several <BR>
delightful hours just sitting on the beach at the east end of Long Island, =
soaking up the <BR>
lovely late summer sun and scenery, and watching the antics of the fisherme=
n and the <BR>
shorebirds. <BR>
...<BR>
Then there was that unspeakably =
lovely view of Blomidon, surely one of the very <BR>
finest in Canada. Thunderheads were constantly forming and reforming, and p=
aler gray fog <BR>
had obviously invaded Scot's Bay for weather entertainment. At one point we=
were pretty <BR>
sure the Parrsboro Shore/Amherst area was receiving a thundershower. Very f=
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