Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:33:36 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Christian Kessler Subject: Re: Snakes and Birds etc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jerry -- just found two thoughts on which you & I agree: thread gone on too long we don't own nature -- & in our more perfect moments we are part of it, tho the chasm between us & nature is -- in theological terminology -- "original sin" & not really reversible. but we can have moments. jck Gerald & Laura Tarbell wrote: >I think we were all beginning to hope this thread would die a quicker >death. Let me just recommend a book for Laura. It's by Theodore >Steinberg and it's titled Slide Mountain, or The Folly of Owning >Nature. It doesn't cover the type of 'owning' that she refers to here, >but it does answer the larger question of land rights in a world bent >on change. Do we really own any part of the natural world even if we put up the nest boxes? > Jerry >========================================== > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================