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R.J. Jensen

R.J. Jensen    November 5, 2006Viz EcoWintergreen        Wintergreen was an interguing book it had a bunch of amazing realazations that in turn got me thinking about how deforistation and logging is really going to destroy our preciption of a natural tree.  The way Robert Michael Pyle talkes about nature and the outdoors is so intreaguing to me.  I think I relate to him because we are both from Colorado and bolth infactuated with things from the natural world.  He makes some really thought provoking comments on the logging companies and how they don’t understand the repercussions for most of their actions and even if they do they would rather make a quick buck then think of the generations to come.  My question to pose to you is who has rights over another being?     I really like the way he Rambles in a Ravaged Land about the massive scares on the land and how they cover such a large area.  It’s really irksom to me the way that a logging corperation will take a huge tract of land, set it aside for “bird watching” and almost forget about it completly.  I find it really hard to belive that they will take thousands and thousands of acres ripping and shreading every peice of bark for paper and other timber related industrys with out evan a glance back.  Then thy go back over the land with a chemical thats related to Agent Ornge, put seeds in the ground and wait for fifty years for unnatural trees to regow.  In this I mean that the trees that are living won’t be their on their own accorde they were planted by someone and didn’t find the place they wanted to grow and I don’t mean to give the trees a tought process but the seed falls and finds its way.  Where as if the seed is moved, planted in a garden, watered, and just generally taken caire of its not growing for its self their are other factors such as the human interaction that change the way it grows in a natural setting.  I belive for anything to grow it requires a great deal of meditation.  Which poses the question can plants meditate and if so are they always suspended in a constant meditation.         Pyle makes a couple really good points about the logging industry and how they have monopilized every aspect of it and have made such a busnis out of it that their families are trapped with no light at the end of the tunnle.  What really needs to happen is our socity needs to stop depending on wood so heavily.  Im not saying put an imeadiat end to the use of wood but it would be good for the survival of the human race to eventually use smaller and smaller amounts of wood.  It would be impossible to not use wood in the fact that its an easy meadeum to build with and most structers are made what some out of wood.  The earth dosn’t need saving its current inhabitants do the planit can survive massive meators and mass distruction, some how life will always find a way.  Its not for the sake of the trees its for the sake of humanity, if we as humans want to live and thrive we have to start a symbiotic relationship with the earth and no longer infeast the planiet with our filth     This was the best book we have read yet in my oppinion it really got me thinking of how the timber corperation is just one big clusterfuck sucking at the teet of socity trying to make a living, its all about them when we need to be looking at the bigger picture and look where humanity is going.  As long as some one looks outside of socity and whats going on in the natural world socitey will still be able to survive as one singular organism living hamoniously with nature.  Which is what needs to happen if humanity is to survive we need to start a symbiotic relationship with nature in every aspect, the world contains the answers the people need to come togeather and stop sepperating thim selfs from everyone and nature.    


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