Comments on: Thoreau: Listen For New Species

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:33:27 +0000

Wish I had the quote in front of me, but Thoreau also writes of how the otter – the size of a small boy – lives his entire life near habitations without a human ever catching sight of him.

Yes, Thoreau says it better than that.

And I see today that a new raft of sighting reports is on the BFRO site. Talking about needing to listen. Listen to these, and you wonder whether many more people are seeing the sas than see otters! To say nothing of a number of other species whose existence we accept.

By: Rillo777

Rillo777 — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:48:22 +0000

Thanks for the great Thoreau quote! I re-read Walden every spring just to keep focused on what’s important. (Seriously, I really do.)
I wonder what he would have thought about bigfoot? But I suspect he probably would have told us to leave it alone.

By: fuzzy

fuzzy — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:22:27 +0000

Listen, my cryptos,
and you might hear…
a gurgle of turtles,
the laugh of a deer…

The puff of a wingbeat,
the squeak of a mouse…
a rustle of insects,
from under the house!