[NatureNS] Disinterest in nature -- another threat to birds

Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:36:35 -0400
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From: Blake Maybank <maybank@ns.sympatico.ca>
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To All;

A recently published study gave me great pause.  You can find a synopsis here:

http://tinyurl.com/2e6jdl

The original on-line journal article that this article cites is 
limited to subscribers only at the moment, so I could not access it.

As a corollary to this study's findings, I can offer this 
unscientific observation.  Last summer when my wife and I were 
camping in the Yukon, spending much of each day hiking, 
photographing, and enjoying nature, we were impressed (and depressed) 
at how few fellow campers/hikers we encountered, weighed (sic) 
against the large number of immense recreational vehicles, whose 
inhabitants rarely ventured outside.   It was as if their 
wind-shields were ersatz video screens, a type of rolling multi-media show.

I thought upon one of Thoreau's most well-known quotes:

"We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest 
to explore and learn all things, we require that all things by 
mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, 
unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.  We can never 
have enough of nature."

Thoreau was too optimistic, and society, it seems, with respect to 
nature, may have had its fill.

In reflection, and wishing all well,


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Blake Maybank
maybank@ns.sympatico.ca

Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"

author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"
http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm

White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada 
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To All;<br><br>
A recently published study gave me great pause.&nbsp; You can find a
synopsis here:<br><br>
<b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2e6jdl" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/2e6jdl</a></b> <br><br>
The original on-line journal article that this article cites is limited
to subscribers only at the moment, so I could not access it.<br><br>
As a corollary to this study's findings, I can offer this unscientific
observation.&nbsp; Last summer when my wife and I were camping in the
Yukon, spending much of each day hiking, photographing, and enjoying
nature, we were impressed (and depressed) at how few fellow
campers/hikers we encountered, weighed (sic) against the large number of
immense recreational vehicles, whose inhabitants rarely ventured
outside.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was as if their wind-shields were ersatz video
screens, a type of rolling multi-media show.<br><br>
I thought upon one of Thoreau's most well-known quotes:<br><br>
&quot;We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are
earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things by
mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild,
unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.&nbsp; We can never
have enough of nature.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br>
Thoreau was too optimistic, and society, it seems, with respect to
nature, may have had its fill.<br><br>
In reflection, and wishing all well,<br><br>
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Blake Maybank<br>
maybank@ns.sympatico.ca<br><br>
Editor, &quot;Nova Scotia Birds&quot;<br><br>
author, &quot;Birding Sites of Nova Scotia&quot;<br>
<a href="http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm<br><br>
</a>White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada</body>
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