ARCHIVE - Visualizing Ecology - Week 9: Sand County Almanac http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/taxonomy/term/30/0 en ARCHIVE - henry Browne week9 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-browne-week9 <p class="MsoNormal">Henry Browne</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sand county Almanac<span>   </span>week 9</p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">One theme I have noticed in our readings is the environmental dualism between science and romanticism. The two are un doubtedly intertwined but the perceptional aspects some time seem conflictive. Leopold is definitely a romanticist and honestly as far as reading goes I think I may prefer that. It’s as if half the authors know everything about nature, but as if their looking in at it from some other sterile place. On the other side those like Leopold are nature. I think some people look at towns and cities as being “the real world” and anything non humane as a nice place for a picnic or something, while others realize “the wild” is the real world and that we’ve just created <span> </span>impermanent constructs to surround ourselves in.<span>   </span>Perhaps Leopold can not explain what&#39;s happening on a cellular level but he definitely understands nature. A bear doesn’t have a clue about the carbon cycle or photosynthesis but I guarantee it understands nature on a level I never could. One thing I took from this book is you don’t need to know why nature is how it is, as long as you abide by it (unfortunately most people don’t). For instance when Leopold talks about the failure of the farm built on top of a marsh. Why don’t we work with nature instead of trying to create our own? Nature has taken care of us for as long as weave existed. When we try to manipulate something so elemental as the ground itself it could start a chain reaction we cant comprehend. Why not do things in places that are naturally conducive to them? It seems like that would be in everyone’s best interest. Why are we re building New Orleans its all going to be flooded again eventually? Humans are on a big ego trip, maybe it stems from the Christian idea that were made in gods image to govern the earth or maybe that idea came from are ego trip</p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-browne-week9">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-browne-week9#comment Week 9: Sand County Almanac Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:28:01 -0700 brohen24 546 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Davey Kruger wk9 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/davey-kruger-wk9 <p class="MsoNormal">The local Chamber of Commerce at first quiescent at the novelty of a hinterland officially labeled as ‘wild,’ tastes its first blood of tourist-money. It then wants more, wilderness or no wilderness.” (SCA pg 172)</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>            </span>Going for a Sunday afternoon drive was one of the most relaxing activities I partook in as a child. The music, quietly played, often complemented the scenery resulting in a most enjoyable day dream that did eventually end in actual sleep. Now when I find my self placidly sitting in a car I often wonder what I would have seen and experienced had I actually walked to my destination. I for one don’t think that it is possible to experience nature, or even life for that matter, in a car. There is nothing spiritually fulfilling about sitting behind the glare of a windshield while the roar of a V8 is muffled by speakers blasting a top twenties radio station. <span> </span></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/davey-kruger-wk9">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/davey-kruger-wk9#comment Week 9: Sand County Almanac Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:23:33 -0800 krudav10 513 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Amanda Hakan wk9 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk9 <p class="MsoNormal">“They envisaged farms not only around, but <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">in </span><span>the marsh. An epidemic of ditch digging and land-booming set in. The marsh was grid ironed with drainage canals, speckled with new fields and farmsteads” (pg.106).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><span><span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px" class="Apple-style-span">            </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px" class="Apple-style-span">A main issue Aldo Leopold touches on is the beauty of nature through the seasons, in all different forms.</span></span><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk9">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk9#comment Week 9: Sand County Almanac Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:21:19 -0800 hakama16 488 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter