The Wonder Of Nature + Silly Stuff

December 19, 2019 at 19:37 (UT/GMT)
(Aquarius) Leo Moon
The Wonder Of Nature + Silly Stuff
2023 Edit
This contemplation on the wonders of nature I wrote in 2019 is all well and good, but now in 2023 I’m posting fun, interesting and silly stuff here….and You can too!

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Why is Nature so Excellent? Nature is never trying to sell anything, or push a point of view.

Nature simply IS.

Nature neither explains itself or purposefully conceals its workings.

When I use the word nature I mean all things not made by humans. Trees and animals, water and rocks.

I have loved being in Nature for as long as I have lived and the above words are the reason why. It is the best teacher.

It´s why I love my cat so much. She is herself always. Nothing explained and nothing purposefully concealed.

Watching the Squirrels bounding across the grass and burying nuts is cute and entertaining to me. Watching the little hand-like paws digging a hole to bury a nut.

This is serious business to the squirrel.Securing itself food for the fallow time.

Seeing one make an alarm call as a hawk passes over, warning other squirrels of danger.
Each squirrel is trying to get the best and most nuts for itself in preparation for the depth of winter.

A balance of competition and cooperation.

Purity is rarely found in nature. Nature is mostly a mixture and a balance.


I have been thinking about nature and its value because I am seeing it´s erasure all around me. The area I live in is being paved and built upon at an alarming rate.

It makes me angry and sad. Future generations deserve to experience the Natural world and learn what it teaches. To experience the wonder.

I just felt like posting this, please post any comments or thoughts of Your own.
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December 19, 2019 at 19:42
(Aquarius) Leo Moon
Here is a small group of deer I watched all summer and fall from my balcony.

After a recent construction project started right next to my apartment complex I have not seen them.
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December 19, 2019 at 20:34
(Aries) ram_goat
Purity is rarely found in nature. Nature is mostly a mixture and a balance.

Ash & "Mother" admired the Alien´s purity, it´s amorality..

Maybe a perversion of the natural world. Judgements made from an
artificial place, removed from empirical experience. Don´t most of us
live such lives? Although in some climates (SE Asia, the Amazon) people must spend their lives running from nature and isolating themselves from it because nature there is decidedly NOT a nice or friendly place. Quite hostile to human life. Also life on certain small islands.. beautiful but barren and harsh.

Europe and temperate climates are veritable Gardens of Eden compared to most climates and ecosystems. Mostly devoid of human predators.. wolves, bears, snakes, insects, large predators... although great whites are caught from time to time in the Adriatic.

I guess those places where humans are part of the food chain too are a little more scary than places where they are not.

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December 19, 2019 at 20:56
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I like nature, I remember how I used to play in the woods, by the river..Today, I live in the city..and I miss those days..Everything is so fast, people are just staring at their phones, they don´t really talk, playgrounds are empty..children are staring at computers.. We forgot that we are part of nature..not apart of it.



When I look into the eyes of an animal I see a friend, I see unconditional love,hope..and for a moment I forget to worry..
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December 19, 2019 at 21:02
(Aries) ram_goat » Morena_Lu
I remember how I used to play in the woods, by the river..Today,


And the ambient sounds.. no traffic, no human noise. Just close your eyes and listen. That is a wonderful experience too. Birds, winds, leaves, water..
December 19, 2019 at 21:08
(Taurus) Astro-Seek.com » ram_goat
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"And the ambient sounds.. no traffic, no human noise. Just close your eyes and listen. That is a wonderful experience too. Birds, winds, leaves, water.."

Exactly! I had my first phone at 17, today you can see how kids ( 3,4 old) already know everything about internet, it is sad.
Now I see how lucky I was as a kid..
December 19, 2019 at 21:17
(Aries) ram_goat » Morena_Lu
maybe not strictly nature, but out in nature,

finding old ruins, abandoned buildings, or even better old bunkers
from a war or other concrete structures.. a playgound for a childs imagination.

I used to imagine I was an archaeologist or explorer and I had discovered the ruins of a new civilization.

Or on another day, imagine I was living in another time or another planet in a different society in these places.

Great places for a child´s mind to wander. I wonder where children´s minds are while they are playing with ipads or phones.. indoors..

Toys of my childhood: Bicycle, backpack, knife, string, rope, bow & arrow, air rifle, wooden matches, (very little money..), small radio, flashlight, books, maps, fishing pole, machete, surfboard..

Toys of children today: ipad, iphone. fidgit spinner, drugs to control ADD, anti-depressants..

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December 20, 2019 at 01:51
(Aquarius) Leo Moon » ram_goat
No doubt same places provide an easier time for humans.

Yet people have lived for thousands of years in the arctic and most Amazonian tribe members say the forest provides all they need.
Or it did until logging , mining and fossil fuel extraction poisoned the forest and rivers.

Nature supports life but doesn’t make it easy.

I am not saying we should all go back and live off the land.

Certainly better resource management is called for.

When the forests of Central and South American are mostly cut down, and it’s heading that way, our climate will change dramatically.

Research how these giant forest create climate. Plus a large percentage of Earth’s oxygen.

The whole man versus nature thing is a human, and very Western conceit.

Nature provides but does its thing and isn’t specifically focused on human comfort and ease.

The destruction of nature in my area is only about money. It is not about quality of life.
Not one person of the hundreds I have spoken with wants this development.

It is forced on us by politicians who have been sneaky in passing new zoning laws and the building is done by mostly 3 developers who don’t live here.

I will bet my soul that the politicians are being well rewarded!

Purity in nature is mostly inorganic material. Like gold or carbon in diamond form.

They are Elements. The Periodic Table represents purity in nature.
December 20, 2019 at 02:12
(Aquarius) Leo Moon » Morena_Lu
Lovely picture!

No question we are a part of nature.

I love animals but I know what a hungry lion or an angry elephant will do to me.

I certainly would avoid those encounters!

I also don’t anthropomorphize or romanticize animals or nature.

My cat Tuesday is a cat. She is designed to be an efficient predator. Many mice have discovered how efficient.
December 20, 2019 at 02:23
(Aquarius) Leo Moon » Morena_Lu
I’m always glad to be one of the last analog generations.

Until last March I didn’t have a mobile phone of any kind.
Practicalities of modern life forced me to get one.

I could easily give it up. The internet is a great library and communication tool.

It is not a replacement for face to face communication.

I would also miss digital recording. I would prefer to use a 2inch analog 24 track recorder but it is expensive and difficult.

Now for a few thousand and a powerful computer I can make recordings as good as anyone.( or I try to!)
December 20, 2019 at 02:24
(Aries) ram_goat » Leo Moon
The whole man versus nature thing is a human, and very Western conceit.


And I suppose "running from nature" such places coincides with running towards a "western" living standard, along with western standards of cleanliness, hygiene, medicine and housing.

> will bet my soul that the politicians are being well rewarded!

Politicians like the property taxes houses bring, and building construction is the pork project extrordinaire, employing as long a logistics chain of different types of people as waging a medium size war in a small middleastern country.. polticians like the jobs and economic stimulus it brings, and cities like the taxes. Unfortunately, the way it is done in the USA and most Anglophone countries, a huge bust always follows the boom, just like with war. But politicians are like children, addicted to this candy, so development is done rapidly, rapaciously, and profitably, for a while... no one ever thinks ahead to the "bust" afterward.. just like with war. But it is an old model that goes back to Roman Britan, so unlikely to change much because it works, however imperfectly. Pockets get lined with money..
December 20, 2019 at 02:25
(Aquarius) Leo Moon » ram_goat
Yes! I was always so happy to have some woods and a stream nearby my childhood homes.

It does spark imagination!

It still does in me.
December 20, 2019 at 02:36
(Aquarius) Leo Moon
As I thought on Nature today and humans relationship to it, I thought how Nature has no abstraction.

Humans and perhaps higher primates on a rudimentary level ,have the talent or perhaps curse of abstraction.

Art of all types is a positive of this . Symbols are a mixed bag.
Symbols can evoke powerful emotions but are often mistaken for something real.

The word cat is not a cat. A $100 dollar bill has no real value. It’s value is a mutual abstraction.

Nature is all real.

The internet may be the ultimate abstraction thus far.
December 20, 2019 at 02:43
(Aries) ram_goat » Leo Moon
The internet may be the ultimate abstraction thus far.

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December 20, 2019 at 02:49
(Aries) ram_goat » ram_goat
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December 20, 2019 at 02:59
(Aquarius) Leo Moon » ram_goat
:4: :15:

The internet sure can be the ultimate distraction!

Amused to death.
December 20, 2019 at 03:08
(Aquarius) Leo Moon
This thread may represent my transit aspect ,Pluto square Mercury.

There’s the astrology! :3:
December 20, 2019 at 03:48
(Aquarius) Leo Moon
Also Neptune Sextile Pluto is another transit aspect that inspired this thread.
December 20, 2019 at 08:54
(Taurus) Astro-Seek.com » ram_goat
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"maybe not strictly nature, but out in nature,

finding old ruins, abandoned buildings, or even better old bunkers
from a war or other concrete structures.. a playgound for a childs imagination.

I used to imagine I was an archaeologist or explorer and I had discovered the ruins of a new civilization.

Or on another day, imagine I was living in another time or another planet in a different society in these places.

Great places for a child´s mind to wander. I wonder where children´s minds are while they are playing with ipads or phones.. indoors..

Toys of my childhood: Bicycle, backpack, knife, string, rope, bow & arrow, air rifle, wooden matches, (very little money..), small radio, flashlight, books, maps, fishing pole, machete, surfboard..

Toys of children today: ipad, iphone. fidgit spinner, drugs to control ADD, anti-depressants.."


I can imagine that, I used to play war games and football with boys, I was the only girl, well, not really Ronaldo level..but i gave my best. :4:
December 20, 2019 at 09:01
(Taurus) Astro-Seek.com » Leo Moon
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"Lovely picture!

No question we are a part of nature.

I love animals but I know what a hungry lion or an angry elephant will do to me.

I certainly would avoid those encounters!

I also don’t anthropomorphize or romanticize animals or nature.

My cat Tuesday is a cat. She is designed to be an efficient predator. Many mice have discovered how efficient."

I had only one cat, I think I was 6, when she died I was so sad, I said that I will never replace her, she was the best cat ever..and I still miss her..
Tuesday is really pretty and happy cat.:)
December 20, 2019 at 13:55
(Aquarius) Leo Moon » Morena_Lu
Tuesie is a happy cat. She gets to sleep in if she wants to!
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December 20, 2019 at 13:56
(Libra) leorising » Leo Moon
i ve just gave affection to my kittens :68:
December 20, 2019 at 15:00
(Aquarius) Leo Moon » leorising
Good! Kittens are so cute.

Look at this cat who was recently found wandering around but was rescued.

Super cute and sweet and silly.
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December 20, 2019 at 15:01
(Aquarius) Leo Moon » Leo Moon
And another of her. She’s adorable.

Glad that she will find a loving home and is off the streets.
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December 20, 2019 at 15:43
(Libra) leorising » Leo Moon
Oh take care this kitten, so sweet :17:
December 20, 2019 at 15:56
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Careful people, Ram has entered and come back from the matrix! :85:
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