"One hundred years from now, as people look back on
our use of this continent, we shall not be praised for our
reckless use of its oil, nor the loss of our forests;
we shall be heartily damned for all these things.
But we may take comfort in the knowledge that we
shall certainly be thanked for the national parks."

~Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, 1931

Sunday, July 11, 2010

QuickPost-July 11, 2010

Do we have this in the west?
As I bicycle along the road, I can feel microclimates that I would never notice otherwise. I remember this feeling from Hanover. As I biked out to forestry practice, over the bridge with the brook, I would feel the change of temperature. And today as I biked out to The Brickett Place, I felt the warmth, the chill, the changes in humidity, and so many micro-changes that I don't remember from my previous homeplace out west.
Feeling the air change in minute ways, not from the wind, but from your own body passing through an area with a vague boundary, is an emotional experience when one is used to consistency in climate.

1 comment:

laura said...

we have that in new orleans! rain + sun within a few feet of each other like ALL THE TIME.