Nature is never far. This is just give a glimpse of a botanist's life from his journal. Not the first watershed event, but the beginnings of a catalytic reaction. A blast from the past, it is hard to believe such youthful hubris, and no, drugs weren't involved.
12/09/96, 16:30
A very glorious day indeed. Roughly 62 deg F. At Tamiami Pineland along a fire road cutting N/S through the center of the pineland. I wish to reiterate the poignant fact that a sense of awareness can be very powerful! I can absorb my surroundings and become very understanding of them to the degree of knowing my place in the universe. Yes, gestalt is a very powerful notion enhanced by experience...thus pleasure. I am blessed by Natural Beauty in its tragic yet exhilarating form. Death to the pines is only temporary, a pause in the grand continuum.
Humanity's destruction of its surroundings only strengthens my appreciation for what is still left. I hope to possess knowledge to a higher degree in order to increase my sense of power in the Natural World.
Is it not time to heighten one's Sense of Awareness?
So how's that "sense of power" doing? Have you redefined this, 13 years later, with your increased knowledge of 13 years of more destruction?
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You'll just have to keep reading. I promise that it will get better...
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