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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Krowbar who wrote (17631)2/10/1998 8:39:00 AM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I helped things along with a pack containing about 35 varieties of wildflowers so that it would clearly be flowers growing there, and I put a park bench to make it look intentional. Otherwise it is true that if you just let it grow up in whatever happens to land there, the city will come along and mow and then charge you a fine for having done so. There are probably neighbors who think I am just letting everything go, but if so they have not said anything. On the whole we have a live and let live neighborhood.

I wish I could give you the specific reference to the Scientific American article that explained how a lot of former farmland in New England and the Southeast has been allowed to reestablish itself as forest. The populations of deer and beavers are increasing rapidly. Right in the middle of a city, surrounded by circumferential highways, we have possums and raccoons in the back yard, not to speak of all the squirrels and perhaps forty species of birds.I realize that there is still much danger to any original virgin forest --what little there may be-- in the United States. But at least there is forest of some kind. I have never been to Ireland but the Irish who visit here are astonished at the number of trees. Almost all of theirs got cut down long ago.

If you think of human beings more like prairie dogs instead of special beings with immortal souls it may be easier to accept the idea of a city as a natural thing. Too many of us are waiting to move into that beautiful retirement home called Heaven and partly for that reason not bothering to make the present cities more liveable.

Various wildlife groups have succeeded in establishing small reservations--on the order of a few hundred acres or a few square miles, to preserve examples of unusual ecosystems. In western North Carolina one of these is Bluff Mountain, which has a swamp right on the top of a mountain in which one finds plants and animals that flourish in lowlands far to the north.
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