tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post4502488895079154916..comments2024-03-01T01:30:03.255-07:00Comments on Genetic Jungle: Paradise lostAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16532403180123519635noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-75387875174410678952008-05-30T21:21:00.000-06:002008-05-30T21:21:00.000-06:00jasonevans: thank you, as always, for showing an i...<B>jasonevans:</B> thank you, as always, for showing an interest in my digital garden.<BR/><BR/><B>claire:</B> much of what makes plants interesting is hidden beneath the surface.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16532403180123519635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-5110674905784552912008-05-30T16:23:00.000-06:002008-05-30T16:23:00.000-06:00I was fascinated that the tree's roots were able t...I was fascinated that the tree's roots were able to get all the way down to the water table. Quite an accomplishment. Its demise is a sad story, but one often told regarding the interactions between humans and nature. We are all part of a bigger cycle that I don't think we really understand. I would echo what shimmerrings wrote about mother earth shaking off the parasites. Isn't there some way to find balance? Not anytime soon, I fear.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10740049258265150141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-26157953855793403132008-05-30T14:52:00.000-06:002008-05-30T14:52:00.000-06:00What a jaw-dropping story, EOH.Thank you, as alway...What a jaw-dropping story, EOH.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, as always, for introducing us to those tremendous dramas which nevertheless seem to get consumed by the constant avalanche of lesser things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-25656831739893841462008-05-30T07:50:00.000-06:002008-05-30T07:50:00.000-06:00angela: "no tree lasts forever". What makes us thi...<B>angela:</B> <I>"no tree lasts forever".</I> What makes us think the words we print on their bodies will?<BR/><BR/><B>chriseldin:</B> seems like a pretty sound explanation. I like the photographs too. Especially the really grainy b&w one from the 1930s.<BR/><BR/><B>singleton:</B> I love the way you feel... that is the purpose of my writing here. To stimulate the senses. And the conscience.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16532403180123519635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-63231204788486788792008-05-30T06:02:00.000-06:002008-05-30T06:02:00.000-06:00Ahhh, you write for my soul....true story fables.....Ahhh, you write for my soul....true story fables...to learn from, to grow from....<BR/>Why is it that we always destroy what is most precious, sacred? <BR/><BR/>Beautiful, beautiful telling of the giving tree....<BR/>the one who lent his arms and shade to years of change, dreams, strangers, hope....<BR/><BR/>I love the way you see.....singletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03482545214687731218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-41647764543555190152008-05-29T01:43:00.000-06:002008-05-29T01:43:00.000-06:00What a sad story. I'm going to share this with my ...What a sad story. I'm going to share this with my desert-husband (I have mountain blood).<BR/>I heard or read a long time ago that when you are driving, you inevitably drive toward whatever you're looking at. So if the drunk driver were looking at the tree, in a way fixated by the tree but in no way intending to run into it, he was still going to hit it.<BR/><BR/>Very sad though. How do you find these topics? I thoroughly enjoy the photos and how you write about them.Chris Eldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794946908789120139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-31353609208435462912008-05-28T07:36:00.000-06:002008-05-28T07:36:00.000-06:00Wow. The entire story of what we've done, are doi...Wow. The entire story of what we've done, are doing, to the planet, right there in the tale of one tree in the desert. Then again, no tree lasts forever. Always interesting here.Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12153878171712341666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-37227286555140549892008-05-27T21:00:00.000-06:002008-05-27T21:00:00.000-06:00lisa: and there goes another. Not all creatures ha...<B>lisa:</B> and there goes another. Not all creatures have been catalogued. The worst is that we are losing what we don't even know we had.<BR/><BR/><B>shimmerings:</B> I like your nephew. Wise young man.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16532403180123519635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-76359057727282979232008-05-27T20:39:00.000-06:002008-05-27T20:39:00.000-06:00Beautiful story, and an important one... it is sad...Beautiful story, and an important one... it is sad, indeed. I believe as you, that things will come back 'round again. Us humans, we are so small in the scheme of things. As my nephew so aptly put it, Mother Earth will, one day, take a dip in a gigantic flea bath, and just shake us off like a bunch of pesty fleas,Shimmerringshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889345175260200888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-47248554275958379882008-05-27T15:16:00.000-06:002008-05-27T15:16:00.000-06:00This just brings tears to my eyes. It makes me thi...This just brings tears to my eyes. It makes me think about the species of animals and plants and insects that quietly die out, unnoticed. See? There goes another...Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00665632105920753931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-31251076335804235832008-05-27T13:39:00.000-06:002008-05-27T13:39:00.000-06:00chris: it was a lot of fun! The Mojave is gorgeous...<B>chris:</B> it was a lot of fun! The Mojave is gorgeous. And Las Vegas is evil.<BR/><BR/><B>aine:</B> what are the odds? And it happened twice! Desertification is a slow and gradual process. As the forest slowly withdraws over a matter of centuries, there are always a couple of stragglers left behind. Who knows what the tree density of that part of the world was like 300 years ago? Probably not much different from today, but perhaps there were a few more scattered and isolated trees such as this one, keeping the desert scantily populated, but populated all the same. Arid environments are seldom devoid of life.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16532403180123519635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-35380878409728422722008-05-27T09:53:00.000-06:002008-05-27T09:53:00.000-06:00Part of me wants to weep for the passing of that t...Part of me wants to weep for the passing of that tree and part of me wants to howl with laughter at the irony that a drunk driver managed to hit the only obstacle in a 400 km radius!<BR/><BR/>It is a fascinating story-- one that should be shared again and again. As humans, we really must understand our power to protect as well as our power to destroy an environment.<BR/><BR/>I wonder how that tree came to grow there-- the area was desert long before the tree existed. Did the seed get carried to that location by a passing animal?Ainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08402176500997528105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-84559904929912885172008-05-27T02:18:00.000-06:002008-05-27T02:18:00.000-06:00I'm on my way out, but will be back later to read ...I'm on my way out, but will be back later to read yet another fascinating post.<BR/><BR/>Hope your road trip was fun!Chris Eldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794946908789120139noreply@blogger.com