“We have from the beginning of the Holocene, you know, the raising,
the creation of cities in the Tigris/Euphrates, we have created a world
in which we marginalize that which we don’t think serves us as well
as it could. We’ve turned nature into a thing.”
……………………………………—Barry Lopez, author, moral philosopher
Death of 832
—for Yellowstone’s remarkable alpha female wolf 832F,
—shot for being Wolf.
By the math of wilderness, more is more and less is less.
—shot for being Wolf.
By the math of wilderness, more is more and less is less.
In the math of civilization more leads to privation.
We have our sanctuaries of conceits to gloss the truth
that it is itself that nature eats and never satiates its hunger.
that it is itself that nature eats and never satiates its hunger.
….
At the food chain’s top we’re pumping up our numbers
behaving ever younger, as in profligate, me-amassing,
adolescent bunglers:
….
wisdom never comes,
….
our predation never stops,
….
collateral damages occur,
….
so the likes of 832 are going under.
by Jim Culleny
12/13/12
behaving ever younger, as in profligate, me-amassing,
adolescent bunglers:
….
wisdom never comes,
….
our predation never stops,
….
collateral damages occur,
….
so the likes of 832 are going under.
by Jim Culleny
12/13/12