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Show THE ZEPHYR/FEBRUARY-MARCH “That often means teaming with a company for sponsorship — — everything from bigtent performances by Cirque du Soleil to selling naming rights for parks facilities.” (2) That’s one example. Here’s another. “When the “Wise-Use” movement was created sixteen years ago, transferring the man- 2007 HIGH DESERT GARDENS agement of America’s National Park System to the Walt Disney Company was listed as loud calls,its surprises, its knowns and unknowns. “It's amazing how slowly time can pass when you're deep in the swamp. It’s a fluid kind of place, all of your visual references are gone ... The only way to cope is to give in to it ... I got into the rhythm of the place. There’s something about hearing the slap of a eeeheecn, Impositions like this are taking up more and more living time of millions of Americans and Europeans. Our planet is harboring a second world, contrived and built of astounding simplicities, nothing like actual forests, swamps, mountains and animals, and the work of people who live on the land and people who work the land and the oceans. This second world offering fake safety and total dependence on environments and adventures made by unseen others explicitly for profit, is a poor, even dangerous, preparation for what lies ahead. Compare these ridiculously simple adventures with the Ivory-bill searchers’ struggle. They move as silently as possible through tangles of second-growth timber, sometimes wading over their boottops in muddy water, keeping an eye out for rattlers and, especially, the silent cottonmouth, stopping often to listen to the forest, its faint whispers and SPRING'S COMING!!! 7 Stop by the cutest little garden shop in the Four Corners and start getting your GARDEN of 2007 ready! — Zz e) == Eo7 cA are zeeehaecn This second world offering fake safety and total dependence on environments and adventures made by unseen others explicitly for profit, is a poor, even dangerous, preparation for what lies ahead. SANCTIONS item #11 of their 25 point agenda” For more on this story and other shockers see <ssilver@ wildwilderness.org> eens 277\ &. HIGHWAY 191 beaver’s tail, the snort of a deer, or the call of a great horned owl or a barred owl ... the (across from Stagecoach Cafe’) swamp no longer seems alien; you feel like part of it.” (3 Ihope the searchers finally get a recording of an Ivory-bill’s call or of the bird itself that will settle once and for all our anxious doubts. Whether the searchers succeed in their 435.259.4531 Quixotic quest, or fail, they are privileged people, alive and alert in the wide world. I sus- _ TREES G6 BUSHES pect that they think of their work as maneuvering in a very complex game loaded with half sensed, partly known variables, requiring constant shifts of strategy. They love it too, at times, that’s obvious. Can you love a video game? A fake burrito? Those fanatic birders are giving us a most telling set of experiences of intense engagement. For them the hard part is the struggle for a kind of innocence, the ability to see and hear without being swamped by previously installed pigeonholes of thought. Those pigeonholes are necessary too, rich stores of past sensations, thoughts, conclusions. The searchers are caught in a dynamic between innocence and experience, and as difficult as that is, there’s more, the body: heartbeat and breath, all senses on high alert, muscle and nerve, body wisdom working. DAVE'S We all are acquainted with that dynamic, but innocence, the hard part for us super-so- phisticates, needs emphasis. Pause now for Henry Thoreau. “1 do not get nearer by a hair’s breadth to any natural object so long as I presume that Ihave an introduction to it from some learned man.” (4) (1) Tim Gallagher, /The Grail Bird. Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker/. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. (2) Lisa Chiu. Seattle Times - Saturday, August 19, 2006, quoted in <ssilver@wildwilder- 400 EAST & MILL CREEK DR.., 299.6999 EVERYBODY COMES TODAVE'’ 5 ness.org> (3) Gallagher speaking, page 195. (4) Journal, October 4, 1859. _ DO YOU HAVE A PULSE? DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT FOR THE ZEPHYR? FEEL LIKE RANTING? PRO OR CON...WE'LL PRINT IT. eczephyr@frontiernet.net moabzephyr@yahoo.com We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and and these interests it is our dufy perpetual, to follow. Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston If this was 1937 you'd be in SIBERIA! —s nee | =e omen rT FR yas RIVERSIDE 366. 500 PLUMBING ein : & HEATING = 259-8324 Residential - Commercial~ Sales Installation - Drain Cleaning COMPLETE LINE OF PLUMBING FIXTURES Kohler - Grohe - Mansfield Ejer ~ Moen - Delta - Sterling - Price Pfister HOT WATER HEATERS - GARBAGE DISPOSALS WHIRLPOOL BATHS - SPAS JOSEF STALIN! It looks like your GULAG iS plugged up. |