CFC Blog #197: Earth Day-Inspired Anti Pet Peeves
As I was reaching out to collect anti pet peeves for Earth Day, Maria responded with a more extensive list, and I decided to share this wonderfully detailed list with the community! She also used her inspiration to create a little collage to go with it as you'll see below! I hope you enjoy - I am ALL for celebrating Earth Day not just on the 22nd, but everyday :) Thank you for keeping the theme going, Maria!
- Amanda
Earth Day-Inspired Anti Pet Peeves
I think I can spend a lifetime listing Earth Day anti-pet peeves! The beautiful thought from Jane Goodall always comes to my mind when I think of nature. She said, "A SENSE OF CALM CAME OVER ME. MORE AND MORE OFTEN I FOUND MYSELF THINKING, THIS IS WHERE I BELONG. THIS IS WHAT I CAME INTO THIS WORLD TO DO."
Happy Earth Every Day to you.
EARTH DAY INSPIRED ANTI-PET PEEVES:
- Seeing many fireflies, and then, all of a sudden, they sync!
- Seeing a murmuration (birds flying together, changing pattern in a whirling)
- Finding lichen in trees (they are a bioindicator, letting us know that the air quality is good)
- Walking down the street, turning in a corner, and a jasmine tree is flowering... the scent is so happy
- Being in the field and finding a 'saborosa', which is a Brazilian cactus fruit, so refreshing, sweet, delicious
- The starry sky at night when lights from the city are rare and you even see the Milkyway
- The smell of rain in a garden
- Taking off your shoes in a fine sand beach
- Waterfalls at perfect temperature
- The sound of the forest at night
- The sound of the forest at dawn
- Seeing the courtship ritual of birds
- Seeing the mating ritual of frogs
- Turtles coming out of their eggs and going towards the water
- Whales
- Hummingbirds
- Golden-greenish stingless bees (jatai)
- Experiencing the thermocline in lakes
- Finding caddisflies' larvae cases in creeks
- Using the inverted microscope and focusing on diatoms, desmids, golden algae, and dinoflagellates in your freshwater sample!
