tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115297162012-02-16T11:29:05.928-07:00All-Natural Poetry, Nature Writing, Field Notes, Observational Sketches, Nature Quotes & MoreJ. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-74998992167761362092007-07-11T16:17:00.001-06:002007-07-11T16:17:21.923-06:00TEST<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-7499899216776136209?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-1157408145898198522006-09-04T16:10:00.000-06:002006-09-04T16:16:15.260-06:00<p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>From www.crocodilehunter.com:</b></span></strong></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank"><b>Media statement – 4 September 2006</b></a></span><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank"><br /></a></strong></span></p><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank"> </a><p align="left" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank"><strong><b>Steve Irwin</b></strong></a></span></p><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank"> </a><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank"> 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.<br /></a></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank"> Emergency services were called from Cairns Rescue Base and met Croc One, Steve’s rescue vessel at Low Isle on the Great Barrier Reef.</a></span></p><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank">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. </a></span></p><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank"> </a><p style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.crocodilehunter.com/" target="_blank">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!”</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-115740814589819852?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-1156551756422314282006-08-25T18:18:00.000-06:002006-08-25T18:50:02.003-06:00<span style="font-size:85%;">up from the gutter<br />he staggers in the cool air --<br />the old drunken moth<br /><br />-- <a href="http://www.MadVerse.com" target="_blank"><b>J. D. Nelson</b></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Originally published in </span><b><span style=";font-family:arial;" ><a href="http://www.lunaticchameleon.com/" target="_blank"><b>Lunatic Chameleon</b></a></span></b></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ></span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-115655175642231428?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-1156325644919984212006-08-23T03:33:00.000-06:002006-08-25T18:17:23.686-06:00<span style=";font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;font-size:85%;" > Nature hates calculators.<br /><br />-- <a href="http://www.rwe.org/pages/Nature_html.htm" target="_blank"><b>Ralph Waldo Emerson</b></a><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/nature.html" target="_blank"></a></span><span style=";font-family:georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/nature.html" target="_blank"><b>The Quote Garden</b></a><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-115632564491998421?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-1155801337370395242006-08-17T01:53:00.000-06:002006-08-17T02:01:44.756-06:00<span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:85%;" >The essence of true wilderness is big mammals that can eat you.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;">This world may be only illusion--but it's the only illusion we've got.</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><a style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.abbeyweb.net/quotes.htx" target="_blank">More quotes by Edward Abbey</a></span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-115580133737039524?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-1155359036755781492006-08-11T23:00:00.000-06:002006-08-12T22:11:37.716-06:00<span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="text"><span style="line-height: 17px;">bird chirps &</span></span></span><span class="text" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br />a frantic bat</span></span><span class="text" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /><br />a little further west</span></span><span class="text" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /><br />a few more</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="text"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br />moments of darkness</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />--</span> <a href="http://www.MadVerse.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">J. D. Nelson</span></a></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />Originally published in </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.litvision.org/poetry12.html">LitVision</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-115535903675578149?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-1155287890932183472006-08-11T03:13:00.000-06:002006-08-11T23:12:50.870-06:00<span style="font-size:85%;">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.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">-- </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/snyder/snyder.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gary Snyder</span></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://home.utm.net/pan/quotes.html" target="_blank">More all-natural quotes</a></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-115528789093218347?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-1155105995779167032006-08-09T01:11:00.001-06:002006-08-09T01:24:43.536-06:00<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.smokeybear.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Smokey Bear</span></a> is introduced by the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">U. S. Forest Service</span></a> on this day in 1944.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Gary Snyder</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> depicts Smokey as the reincarnation of the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Great Sun Buddha</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> in his poem, <a href="http://www.smokeythebearsutra.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Smokey the Bear Sutra</span></a>.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-115510599577916703?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11529716.post-1155104084091326992006-08-09T00:00:00.000-06:002006-08-09T00:16:59.496-06:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >Henry David Thoreau publishes </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" ><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html" target="_blank">Walden</a> </span></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >on this day in 1854.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11529716-115510408409132699?l=ecoverse.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. D. Nelsonnoreply@blogger.com0