Ah, how nice it is to be in the great outdoors and filling my lungs with fresh air! The passing weather front has made life bearable again and the fleecy white clouds are a reminder that Autumn is near.
Visitors are down on the fossil beds trying to imagine what life must have been like all those supposed millions of years a go. I can see a few fishermen too, but I think the water is too warm and the fish won’t be in the mood. I wonder if when our kind passes into the next geological age…what presences will we leave behind? Will our very bones turn to stone too and leave a layer here for “others” to discover? I doubt it.
It’s all so mind-boggling to me that life could have evolved out of some stagnant pool of algae ooze. I’m not sure I believe that because here I am in my white dress floating over this landscape. That would have been too unrefined a beginning for someone who is closer to the angels than to the amoebas!
Surely, all this exists for our benefit? I mean what other use could it have? Do we think that the animals or plants have the means to develop this site or have the wherewithal to see a bigger picture? If it’s all going to become history anyway shouldn’t we use our resources as we see fit? Isn’t that what Darwin meant by survival of the fittest?
Nature is okay, but a little untidy for my tastes. What the natural world needs are beings like us to organize this place and turn it into a garden. When I visit the Interpretive Center I think I will plant that idea in the suggestion box. There are so many more useful ways to experience this landscape if only the people in charge would clean things up a little.
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First of all, let me say I love the sculpture tour guide today. Cool shot of her floating down the rock face in picture#4 right under where she makes the comment about angels and amoebas. Looks like what we are leaving behind,in areas like this, might be our trash. The correlation between what is buried in the earth over centuries telling a story of each era’s time here and how we have spent it is a great observation.
Thanks Leslie…I wonder if people who read this will know I’m being somewhat sarcastic? Believe it or not, some of the “ideas” that this tour guide espouses are things I have had people tell me!
I don’t know how I missed the lady in the white dress! Nature needs a tidy up eh! All that will be left of us is our rubbish to show we were here – forget the thin layers of stone dust underneath all the rubbish…
Good imaginatively written post and great pics:)
Thanks Lynda…after reading the World Without Us (didn’t you recommend this book?), I’m not sure there will be as much of this typical rubbish to find as we may think. Besides…if were not around to notice it may be a moot point anyway.
Hi Al. I read “The World Without US” and one of the things I remember is the part about all the plastic swirling around in the Pacific Ocean. Kind of reminds me of the rubbish you find along the river. Loved that read. I also remember him talking about New York and what would happen to it if we ceased to exist.
Leslie I think about those plastic areas in the oceans all the time. What was recently discovered was that the Atlantic Ocean has its share as well. The Atlantic plastic is made up of much smaller pieces that are interacting with life on a microscopic level.
lovely from the start
lady with a big heart
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