Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 09:20:34 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Who's Next?
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Reminds me of "Silent spring" by Rachael Carson.
More to it than most people ever consider.
I lived in a place where everyone had manicured yards with all kinds of
stuff to make it "pleasant", ie, w/o bugs, varmints, etc. - Foggers,
lawn poisons, etc. The neighbors had a sterile environment.
Me! I liked it wild. My grass grew tall, my bushes grew big, had all
kinds of wild shrubs and berries growing, neighbors hated me. Called my
place an eyesore. To me it was my patch of heaven. I had squirrels,
rabbits, green anoles, bluetailed skinks, bluejays, woodpeckers, quail,
you name it. Neighbors had nothing. The dividing line was not sharp, and
my varmints occasionally would wind up in someone elses place, doing
what varmints do, and that causes some problems, but at my place they
had a home, given they had been chased out of everywhere else.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver who likes is wild
Stan Wilder wrote:
>As a child in Dallas TX back in about 1956 we had abundant wildlife in
>our neighborhood.
>Within ten blocks we had rabbits, skunks, raccoons, beavers, opossums,
>squirrels.
>Right in my own back yard I had tree lizards, salamanders, chameleons,
>various types of frogs and horned toads.
>We had lots of Praying Mantis, Butterflies, Fire Flies, Lady Bugs, Pill
>Bugs, Hornets, Wasps, Yellow Jackets.
>I now live about five miles from that location and nothing lives in my
>neighborhood but squirrels and opossums.
>All of the things that are first effected by insecticides died off first;
>the horned toads and frogs were first to go then the fire flies and any
>thing that ate insects.
>My grandchildren may grow up without ever seeing a fire fly, horned toad,
>bull frog, chameleon or tree lizard.
>For those that remember its about the time the City Trucks came by about
>once a week spraying DDT for Mosquito control. (thought then to be a
>benign chemical.)
>The only way to be an environmentalist is to move to a location where
>there is still environment.
>Just remembrances on this, another new years eve.
>
>Stan Wilder
>
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