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PREDATORS

RAVINGS Posted on August 5, 2018 by ljclarkeAugust 5, 2018

“This is about death.”  Dereck Joubert summed up his 2011 African nature documentary, The Last Lions, which filmed massive predators (many adults weigh up to 450 pounds) at the pinnacle of their evolutionary development doing what they are born to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Botswana, Buffalo/Bison, Dereck and Beverly Joubert, Lions | 4 Replies

The Humans

RAVINGS Posted on August 31, 2017 by ljclarkeAugust 31, 2017

‘These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before!” Ready for Starfleet? Three of earth’s most … Continue reading →

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Posted in Buffalo/Bison, E.O. Wilson, Grizzly Bears, Space, Star Trek, Starfleet Academy, Stephen Hawking, Uncategorized | 1 Reply

Together On A Living Planet

RAVINGS Posted on June 11, 2017 by ljclarkeJune 11, 2017

It is time to say goodbye to the great mammals.  Nothing vanishes in a tidy fashion and these creatures have been persevering for decades with remarkable composure to maintain a wild existence while living in the midst of a most … Continue reading →

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Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Grizzly Bears, Singularity University, Yellowstone Park | 2 Replies

Families

RAVINGS Posted on March 4, 2017 by ljclarkeMarch 27, 2017

A Perfect Forest The province of British Colombia is 40,000 square miles larger than the combined states of Washington, Oregon, and California.  Much of it is forest wilderness even today: lonely and real and out of the way, still filled … Continue reading →

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Posted in Forests, Gregory Tah-Kloma, In The Shadow of A Rainbow, Nahani, Old Growth Forest, Peter Wohlleben, Robert Franklin Leslie, The Hidden Life of Trees, Trees, Wolves | 5 Replies

I N T E L L I G E N C E

RAVINGS Posted on October 15, 2016 by ljclarkeOctober 15, 2016

Integrated Circuits My Fitbit somehow fell into the bathing suit trunk and seemed lost forever. I wanted to finish the day off with a few more steps, but without the Fitbit I had no idea what my true number of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Integrated circuits, Intelligence of Plants, Plants, Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Buhner, Trees | 7 Replies

The Wooden People

RAVINGS Posted on July 11, 2016 by ljclarkeMarch 10, 2017

1 – FOREST The North has always been with us, an unspoiled retreat and refuge from human civilization’s excess and noise.  “Up north” means a clear cold night filled with stars, frozen lakes and rushing rivers.  From northern Michigan to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Birds, Boreal Forest, Climate Change, Crows, Environment, Forests, Fort McMurray, Mayan Myth, Oil, The Wooden People | 7 Replies

Three Old Men and a Blueblood

RAVINGS Posted on May 1, 2016 by ljclarkeMay 1, 2016

It is truly unnerving to try and write about climate change.  For months, I have been deeply absorbed in the writings of James Lovelock, who, after a decade of the most authoritative and frightening pronouncements about the climate situation, written … Continue reading →

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Posted in Climate Change, E.O. Wilson, Environment, Gulf of Mexico, James Hansen, James Lovelock, Octopus | 3 Replies

A Time of Humanity ~ The Sympathy of Enlightenment

RAVINGS Posted on March 5, 2016 by ljclarkeMarch 5, 2016

  We have not moved from our modest neighborhood but our address has changed:  it is now Clearwater, Florida, in the Virgo Supercluster of Laniakea (Hawaiian for ‘immense heaven’).  Astronomers have discovered that our Milky Way is clumped together with … Continue reading →

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Posted in Enlightenment, Environment, Ramana Maharshi, Sir Richard Attenborough, Space, Telescopes | 3 Replies

The Orphans

RAVINGS Posted on October 28, 2015 by ljclarkeOctober 28, 2015

In a thousand years, Florida will be under water, but right now industrial heavy-lift cranes line the sky in Tampa, Orlando, Miami and Jacksonville and we have perfect weather.  Over 100,000 visitors are expected here this winter and trendy new … Continue reading →

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Posted in Child Soldiers, Elephants, Joseph Kony | 4 Replies

The Ospreys

RAVINGS Posted on July 26, 2015 by ljclarkeJuly 26, 2015

Every day after tennis, Joanie and I spend five or six hours on the road looking for our new home and then return with great relief to the townhouse we have graciously been invited to live in temporarily.  I race … Continue reading →

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Posted in Birds, Ospreys | 3 Replies

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  • A Time of Humanity ~ The Sympathy of Enlightenment
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