Balance, sir, balance....where has it gone? The Divine Creator to my way of thinking created the human race and all other creatures to have equal importance.

Everyone is clear cutting around us. We are blessed because of my family to live on 207 acres and, quite frankly, so are the animals who have ALL fled the clear cut areas, but sigh, all now seem to live with us. We only allow bow hunters to hunt here and they are told quite explicitly to NOT take more than they or their extended families truly need. We disinvited one fellow who just didn't get the message.

Quite honestly, upset the balance of nature, mess with the food chain, crowd animals out of their natural habitat all for the sake of 'progress' and in my opinion, you will end up reaping what you sew. That so coveted 'progress' in my mind, the fascination with all that is new and shiny, dismissing and dismantling the historic, and our disconnect to nature in my mind's eye, has a great deal to do with the predicament mankind finds itself in now. Now that I think about it, I guess I must be a tree hugger. :roll: :wink:

Balance, sir, balance....where has it gone? The Divine Creator to my way of thinking created the human race and all other creatures to have equal importance.

Everyone is clear cutting around us. We are blessed because of my family to live on 207 acres and, quite frankly, so are the animals who have ALL fled the clear cut areas, but sigh, all now seem to live with us. We only allow bow hunters to hunt here and they are told quite explicitly to NOT take more than they or their extended families truly need. We disinvited one fellow who just didn't get the message.

Quite honestly, upset the balance of nature, mess with the food chain, crowd animals out of their natural habitat all for the sake of 'progress' and in my opinion, you will end up reaping what you sew. That so coveted 'progress' in my mind, the fascination with all that is new and shiny, dismissing and dismantling the historic, and our disconnect to nature in my mind's eye, has a great deal to do with the predicament mankind finds itself in now. Now that I think about it, I guess I must be a tree hugger. :roll: :wink:

I appreciate your thoughts, but take exception with one sentence: "The Divine Creator to my way of thinking created the human race and all other creatures to have equal importance." I agree with "that which he created." That which has evolved since the "fall" is another matter. I don't believe he created the myriad insect forms and other byproducts of genetic mutation. Man is the apex, but we have done a pretty miserable jobs of dressing and husbanding the Garden. You are so correct in your observation that we have upset the balance of nature with your passionate penchant for "development." Keep searching with the knowledge that ultimately God is in charge.

Balance, sir, balance....where has it gone? The Divine Creator to my way of thinking created the human race and all other creatures to have equal importance.

Everyone is clear cutting around us. We are blessed because of my family to live on 207 acres and, quite frankly, so are the animals who have ALL fled the clear cut areas, but sigh, all now seem to live with us. We only allow bow hunters to hunt here and they are told quite explicitly to NOT take more than they or their extended families truly need. We disinvited one fellow who just didn't get the message.

Quite honestly, upset the balance of nature, mess with the food chain, crowd animals out of their natural habitat all for the sake of 'progress' and in my opinion, you will end up reaping what you sew. That so coveted 'progress' in my mind, the fascination with all that is new and shiny, dismissing and dismantling the historic, and our disconnect to nature in my mind's eye, has a great deal to do with the predicament mankind finds itself in now. Now that I think about it, I guess I must be a tree hugger. :roll: :wink: