We can certainly differ on opinion without lowering ourselves to childish insults, can we not?
I am not wringing my hands, or crying as I type, or planning any kind of Mother Earth ceremony.
I also have a fire in my wood stove as we speak, a wooden house with wooden furniture, and live on land that has native trees as well as hard woods and fruit bearing non-natives that I have planted. People would be super screwed without trees. So yes, I kind of like them.
But what I do not understand is the vitriol of some of you regarding posts that express love, respect and wonder at the ways of the natural world.
Being conservative and being amazed at the complexity of the Earth are not mutually exclusive.
I also don't give a crap what you teach your kids. However, I am the mother to three as well and I teach them everything I can about plants, animals, and the planet we live on, and how best to admire, protect and live in a symbiotic way. I homeschool, and science is a big part of our curriculum.
I have a compost pile and an organic garden that is full of chicken manure, supplied by our own chickens. I thought having chickens would be fun, so our kids can learn the importance of life cycles and the food chain,too.
If I am good to my plants and animals, they are good to me. If I treat them like crap, I get crappier products from them. Now, expand that to a world view and maybe you will begin to understand my admiration for a giant tree that lived for hundreds of years and during that time cleaned the air that we breathe, filtered toxins, provided shade, gave habitat to numerous animals and insects, and on and on. Honestly, the more I type the more I cannot understand why or how people can belittle or minimize the intertwining of relationships of living things. I also figure that I have just written a lot of what you think are super boring words so I'd be surprised if you have read this far. If you have, I hope you are a little less pissy at this point. :)
Clearly, I must be a liberal!!!!!
You two need to chill out a bit with the hate. Sheesh.
Ummm, maybe it was your post about trees being better off without mankind, accusing Conservative who don't share your passion of being jerks, or the resort to disagreement as being hate?
Just a thought.
“I hope you are a little bit pissy at the moment”.
Not at all, teenyelliott. You see, for me to be pissed, I would have to care about what you said. I don’t. The fact that you mentioned that trees would be better off without humans... pretty much tells me what your priorities are all about. Nature over humans, right? Humans are parasites to the planet, right? I’ve read all that stuff before... and quite frankly, it is boring. The tree was nice. It lived a long time. It died. It didn’t “see” history. It didn’t participate in it. It sat there... doing tree things. It isn’t the last of its kind either. Yes... earth and all God has given us is a wonderful thing BUT to elevate a tree to human status is wrong. Have a good night!
So what do you do with YOUR dead plants Teeny? Do you bury them or cremate them?