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R.I.P. Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter

From www.crocodilehunter.com:

Media statement – 4 September 2006

Steve Irwin

At 11am today, the 4th September 2006, Steve Irwin was fatally wounded by a stingray barb to his heart whilst filming a sequence on Batt Reef off Port Douglas for his daughter’s new TV series.

Emergency services were called from Cairns Rescue Base and met Croc One, Steve’s rescue vessel at Low Isle on the Great Barrier Reef.

The Croc One crew performed constant CPR during the thirty minute dash to Low Isle, but the medical staff pronounced Steve dead at approx. 12 noon.

His producer and closest friend, John Stainton said on Croc One today, “The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest Dads on the planet. He died doing what he loves best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. Crocs Rule!”

Haiku No. 77

up from the gutter
he staggers in the cool air --
the old drunken moth

-- J. D. Nelson

Originally published in Lunatic Chameleon

One from The Quote Garden

Nature hates calculators.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Quote Garden

Three quotes by Edward Abbey

The essence of true wilderness is big mammals that can eat you.

This world may be only illusion--but it's the only illusion we've got.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

More quotes by Edward Abbey

5:15 AM

bird chirps &
a frantic bat

a little further west

a few more
moments of darkness

-- J. D. Nelson

Originally published in LitVision

Wildness is...

everywhere: ineradicable populations of fungi, moss, molds, yeasts, and such, that surround and inhabit us. Deer mice on the back porch, deer bounding across the freeway, pigeons in the park. Spiders in the corner.

-- Gary Snyder

More all-natural quotes

A. K. A. "Hotfoot Teddy"

Smokey Bear is introduced by the U. S. Forest Service on this day in 1944.

Gary Snyder depicts Smokey as the reincarnation of the Great Sun Buddha in his poem, Smokey the Bear Sutra.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden on this day in 1854.