Ms. Matterhorn wrote:Susi, you definitely should have been a teacher!
Yeah, but it would HAVE to be grade school. I could not take those high school kids. By that time they have been indoctrinated. I love the little ones curiosity and their love of anything new and cool. What an absolute joy to share that with them, as you help to teach them about the marvelous world while catching a crawdad and a pollywog and explaining about these marvelous creatures. Are there actually any creeks with such things left in them anymore?
I know the creek I grew up playing in is gone, long, long gone to *progress*.
My mom always tells a story about me when I was about 8. We lived in No Cal, in the East Bay Area, a Walnut producing mecca. We had Walnut orchards everywhere around us. I love Walnuts and we used to play for hours in the orchards. One time we were driving down one long lane out to another town and they had bulldozed a huge Walnut orchard. I looked out and said, "Why are they killing all the Walnut trees, mom?" She said to me, "Well, Susi, that's progress." I said to her, "Mom, I don't like progress." Quite precocious! :twisted: My mom had her hands full with me growing up!
I remember this event when it happened, because it stuck so clearly in my mind that the world was changing and I did not like the changes very much. Orchards and creeks making way for banks and parking lots! What a waste of the beautiful world. :(
And it continues...some who have the responsibility to think of consequences, but never do, taking land from the Polar Bears and the rest of the wildlife. We have some real jerks that live here in Colorado, who move out to the mountains to be near nature, but then call in the Fish and Game folks to *kill* the bears and wolves and other vicious wildlife that might eat their precious Cockapoo. Keep the damn dog inside unless you are out there with it. These *city* pepole who want to expereince nature should just buy National Geopgraphics films and sit in their penthouse high atop some fancy Condo and get their taste of nature that way. These are the same moroons who get lost back country skiing and cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars for rescue.
See, I don't WANT to live out there. That is the home of the animals, not my home. And I would not want to upset the balance in any way. It sickens me everytime I hear of another black Bear or Brown Bear that has been *euthanized* because people left their garbage out over and over and the bear got too used to it and could not go back to being *a bear and doing what a bear does* The people are responsible for these bear deaths and it just fries me.
I am very passionate about wildlife and animals rights and I just get going. Sorry for my vent....
I love animals so much..... :armadillo
:cat1:
:cow3:
:dog1: :dog3: :dog4:
:dog6: :dog8: :dog7: :dog5:
:elephant2
:horse1:
:lion2:
:monkdan:
:moose2: :panda2:
:polar: :pig1: :rabbit1: :porcupine
:sheep2: :sheep4: :sheepjump
:chicken2:
:sheepwalk
:chicken1:
:goose2:
:penguin1:
:parrot2: :penguin2:
:butterfly : :dragonfly
:gator1:
:snail2:
:gator2: :opossum:
AND of course my dear friends....
:wallaby:
susi :)
