“July 6th marks the date of Earth’s aphelion, the planet’s most distant point from the Sun. At 7:30 am EDT our fair world will be some 152,096,438 kilometers (94,508,345 miles) from the center of the Sun.” [*]
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just a thought
A good start to the month…
I saw 5 hawks in one tree this morning in Altura Park. Four were definitely a family; two were definitely young. The fifth caused some commotion on return. I don’t know if it was an interloper or just another member of the family.
Join the Defense
The wilderness needs no defense — only more defenders. — Aldo Leopold
the independence of solitude
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.†— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Longest Day of the Year
Happy Solstice, everyone! "Thus, though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run."
It’s clear
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir 1838-1914
earliest sunrise is earlier than you think
“While the solstice itself falls on the morning of the 21st, the earliest sunrise of the year occurs a week before on the 14th.†[*]
National Get Outdoors Day
Get out! No, seriously, June 12th is National Get Outdoors Day.
dwindle and pale
“Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by the regular contact with outdoor growths — animals, trees, sun warmth, and free skies — or it will dwindle and pale.†–Walt Whitman
“In wilderness is the preservation of the world.†-Henry David Thoreau.