All Species Day
http://www.allspecies.org/ideas/greenteach.htm --- http://earthstonestation.com/2012/05/09/all-species-day/
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All Species projects build a sense of community while reestablishing our connection to the natural world.
GARY SNYDER TELLS in his book "The Practice of the Wild" about riding in a pickup truck in Australia with an aborigine. As they were traveling along, the man was telling stories at an amazing pace, too fast for them to be told properly. Snyder wondered why he would do such a thing. It seems that the important knowledge of the man's tribe is recited as the tribe moves along in the bush. Each feature of the landscape relates to a specific story or part of a story. At the speed of a moving pickup, of course, the stories had to be told faster....
SJS -- of the human species
Santa Fe, NM