The nesting black skimmers have hatched their eggs and the babies are absolutely adorable and irresistably cute:
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In addition there are baby pelicans, newly hatched snowy egrets and so forth.
I picked up a free fishing magazine this morning and read the following wisdom:
New studies have shown that regular, unstructured playtime in nature makes kids smarter, calmer, more self-disciplined, more cooperative, and happier.
The principle of wisdom doesn't apply exclusively to children. It is also true of adults as well.
For whatever reason humankind has grown increasingly isolated from Nature over the last 10,000 years and this isolation has provoked an irrational fear and hatred of Nature sufficient to provoke the wholesale destruction of Nature, eradication of entire ecosystems, extinction of thousands of species, and a radical and ultimately tragic transformation of the climate.
The odd thing is to observe how people react on the beach to the baby birds. Naturally people love babies. People enjoyed a moment of happiness and delight.
Why, then, have we destroyed the habitat of the shore birds and nearly driving them extinct? If people naturally love birds why is it that so many lovely and spectacular birds have already gone extinct?
If humans love Nature and life so very much who could possibly have provoked our species to destroy the Earth, trash the planet, fill every ecosystem with toxins, and generally treat our only home as if it were a sewer?
I encourage everyone to reconnect with Nature, make peace with Nature, and cease all of those habits (including economically valuable habits) which serve to destroy Nature.
But it is impossible for humankind to stop. It is impossible at 6.7 billion, it is impossible at 7.5 billion, and it is impossible at 9 billion.
David Mathews
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