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{Neighbor's porch.....inspired by the green, the flowering plants}
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“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'”
Rachel Carson
I am reading a biography about Rachel Carson and listening to some music, I have treasured her books always, and am awed by her prophetic perceptions ....I am putting on Marvin Gaye tonight...good porch music...especially after a thunderstorm...this song is about damaging the Earth....Marvin was so ahead of his time and he got it so right....I have seen only ONE bee this summer so far....Lightening bugs are here, so where are the bees ? Anyways I am going to sit on the porch, drink some iced tea and eat lemon cake and listen to Marvin....have a good night...
Marvin Gaye " Mercy, mercy"
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves”
Rachel Carson
***Footnote about Rachel Carson: She was the first person to confront the Chemical Industry and the Government about the dangers of Pesticides and Herbicides on Fish and Birds and all forms of wildlife, she worked studying the effects as a Fish and Wildlife Employee, and she wrote the famous book "Silent Spring", which is now in reprint, with an intro. by Al Gore. She had a wonderful lyrical way of writing (especially for a scientist). The same time she was confronting the chemical Industry and going to Hearings in DC, she was fighting Breast Cancer. It is ironic now to think that she was speaking about her concern for the wildlife , yet she too was suffering from the damage of studying them for all those years, and also absorbing the chemicals. She remained silent about her Cancer battle, to this day I think Congress should have known of her personel battle, that perhaps they would have understood her concerns better. She also wrote a book called " A Sense of Wonder", that is about sharing nature with children that is wonderful, The Biography I am reading is called "Sea and Earth: The Life of Rachel Carson" by Philip Sterling.
