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Dover

(19,788 posts)
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 03:45 AM Jan 2012

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we? " - Thoreau






Online program: Predator Legends - connection to our animal ancestors and totems.

How to begin to reconnect with nature, as told through the voices of Native Americans.

http://video.idahoptv.org/video/2167756774/







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“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” (Original Post) Dover Jan 2012 OP
Thoreau converted me 45 years ago postulater Jan 2012 #1

postulater

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1. Thoreau converted me 45 years ago
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 10:32 AM
Jan 2012

Trees fall in my yard and I let em lay so I can watch the fungi grow on them.

I wonder where Thoreau would live today.

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