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--- Scott Chase <ecphoric@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> One person might drive by a plot of undeveloped land and say to
> themselves,
> "Wow, check out the array of native trees and shrubs and look at
> those
> wildflowers in bloom. I wonder how many gopher tortoises and indigo
> snakes
> live there amongst other varieties of flora and fauna?" Another
> person might
> say, "What an ugly weed infested eyesore. Reminds me of that place
> where I
> got poison ivy when I was a kid. That place should be bulldozed for a
>
> housing development, shopping mall, or just a parking lot. Pave it!"
Heh heh...:)
When I look at nature, I often think about all the terrabits of
information encoded in the protein structures of both visible and
invisible species...all that knowledge of nano-scale manipulation and
fantastic engineering solutions to difficult problems - all of that
amazing richness, and so very few people who are aware of it. And all
of this from a rather limited cultural perspective of one early 21st
century technological civilization...
And all of it is going away, slipping into nonexistence, while we
blindly stumble along into uncertain future.
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There are very few men - and they are exceptions - who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.
Carl von Clausewitz
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