Sunday, March 30, 2008

Big Moth


These are the things that you seen when your are doing vegetation surveys in the tropics. Things that your eye will totally miss if you are just walking through the forest. The blessings of doing "veg work" that compensate for the myriad of sweat bees lapping up your salts and crawling all over your body in the process. Mind control.

Can you believe that camouflage?! If you squint, you can barely see it. The container of nature is like giant spherical mirror that contains smaller mirrors, impersonators of the larger, flitting around within it. The more that they appear like the larger mirror, the higher tendency they have to pass their continuum of adapted energy onwards. The energy is never lost.

This Ghost Moth, was so big, that I was startled when it flew from the tree--even after I touched it! It flew like a leaf would fall and then quickly flip itself up onto the surface of another tree. So fast, that if you looked away for a moment you would miss it.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Avain Diversity in the Anthropogenic Forests of Tambopata, Peru


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Welcome to my blog where you can find about about the last changes in my life and can encounter my thoughts regarding the nature of 'Nature' and how we as humans might cope with the increasing urbanization of our lives that leaves us feeling disconnected from our source. Biophilia, is a term that was developed from the work that Steven Kellert and E.O. Wilson did regarding the innate love that humans have for nature and the important role that nature, through its structures, plays in promoting psychophysiological wellbeing. Topics herein will range from poetry and philosophy to ecology, biodiversity conservation, and Yoga.