Green Meditations

meditation on nature

as a spiritual and creative path

Declare Independence For Wildlife

On the way to my morning walk on the beach today, I passed by many neighbors flying flags and even old-fashioned bunting. That got me thinking about independence for the true first citizens of this land—the creatures who inhabited this place long before we ever strolled down from the Bering Land Bridge over ten millennia ago. Living as I do on the 48th parallel, this area was under ice, but beginning a few hundred miles farther south, animals still thrived. In our 10,000 years on this continent we’ve managed to overpopulate it with people and muck it up rather badly.

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