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Just what is a neoNaturalist anyhow?
Next week will mark the 7th anniversary of neoNaturalist.com. When the site started out I just wanted to provide trail descriptions from a naturalist's perspective, rather than the bland, "trail is 1.5 miles long and gets muddy when it rains" drivel that you could find on the internet then. The idea was that you could get a naturalist's perspective 24 hours a day via this relatively new (neo-) electronic medium. My thinking has evolved from there. So has the site. Most of the traffic used to come from search terms like "ohio trails" or "hiking in Ohio". Now, the site is indexed and ranks highly for things like "nature terms" (number one out of 294,000,000 results on Google as ...
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Why should Thoreau get all the Marrow?
[caption id="attachment_138" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Are you the water, the trees or the sky? Or, are you the reflections upon the water?"][/caption] “I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau (Walden). To me, living deliberately means to live life with your mind wide open. Understand life, Nature, and where you fit in. Too many times people live on autopilot. They awaken to the sound of an alarm clock because they must be at their workplace at an arbitrarily set standard ...
