Month: October 2011
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Real World Progress
It is often difficult to reconcile the expansion of urban centers with the preservation of nature. Considering industrialization’s history, it is not too bold to suggest that the natural world and urban world are adversaries, locked in a competition for survival.
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Farmer John Becomes a Naturalist
Does counting butterflies equal work? I’ve been delighted by the reds and purples, and awakened by a flick upon my fingertips.
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The Central Bloom
What is a flower if one cannot see What this flower may someday be? A bulb, a shoot, a stem, and one crimson flower All fuelled by the great sun’s power.
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Death of the Bumblebee
This day brings the heartache in dreamers. We used to be searching the start for meanings, sliding our hands against stars, scruying to find the future, looking for omens in the night. Now we use the dry papers of science to understand how we will destroy the earth.
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Aotearoa
I think about William Wordsworth most when I’m laying lethargically across my couch, staring aimlessly into a bright television set. I suppose it should affect me differently; like when I’m trekking across a beach to spot a colony of yellow-eyed penguins, or silently gazing up at the Southern Cross.
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Robins
Imagine, a world shaped especially for robins. The volume of worms needed to please such an environment would cause the soil to always be extremely fertile. The sky would be clear of all smog, planes, and runaway balloons.
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Nature as an Excuse
Too often, I find that people use nature as a scapegoat for failure and irresponsibility. At least, these are the ends nature may be cited for at best; at worst, nature is used to perpetuate the idea that we are inherently a depraved, craven, wretched, miserable lot whose marginal gains and successes are curious matters…
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A Living Force
The world is evolving, and patterns of change are cycling the systems of environment, sustainability, and human progress. In the coming years, climate change will become the most important subject in government summits, public talks, and manufacturing industries.
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Taxidermy
She decided it was time to stop. Ignored her pale reflection as she packed her paints and brushes in a box where her face couldn’t yearn for their costume.
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Getting Away with It All
As I skip rocks at sunset from my campsite’s cloistered shore, I grab the pocket guide More Moss to Live Off: Eighth Edition – promising the secrets of enlightenment on a gold foiled star – and toss it in too. I watch as it skips even worse than my watch did. And my anxiety floats…