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--=======AVGMAIL-47A84A434310======= Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_4340625==.ALT"; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2808C94 --=====================_4340625==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2808C94 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, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --=====================_4340625==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2808C94 <html> <body> To All;<br><br> A recently published study gave me great pause. 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. 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.<br><br> I thought upon one of Thoreau's most well-known quotes:<br><br> "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." <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> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Blake Maybank<br> maybank@ns.sympatico.ca<br><br> Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"<br><br> author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"<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> </html> --=====================_4340625==.ALT-- --=======AVGMAIL-47A84A434310======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2808C94 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.19/1258 - Release Date: 04/02/2008= 10:10 AM --=======AVGMAIL-47A84A434310=======--
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