now it's all covered with daisies

[bluegreen17]

i don't think i could ever chop down trees to build a house. i don't know,it just disturbs me that i've been driving to work the back way lately because of the construction on my regular route,and i keep seeing massive clearing of land to build ugly big ass one family houses. this is in areas that have beautiful forests.

i love the song by the talking heads that has a line about 'this used to be a parking lot...now it's all covered with daisies'. it's kind of the antidote to the line in joni mitchell's song that goes 'they paved paradise and put up a parking lot'.

i'm just being a crotchety tree-hugger today,i guess.

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[cretaceousrick.livejournal.com]

What's the name of the Talking Heads song? I think I need an antidote to everything that goes on around us.

It all seems so futile, though. Even vegans live in houses that leveled forests or created the need for gravel mines or created tons of particulates from the firing of bricks. Our human predations aren't limited to things with Bambi eyes.

[bluegreen17]

i don't know the name of the song...it came out in the mid-eighties if that helps at all! (probably not...but there's always google).

yeah,i know what you're saying. i'm just particularly attached to trees and forests.

[cretaceousrick.livejournal.com]

I searched for it, and it turns out to be (Nothing But) Flowers. In the process of downloading it now. The lyrics are awesome!

I miss the forests I'm used to... all deciduous and broad-leaved and bursting with color in the fall... Sand-pines have their ecological importance, and they're nicer to look at than parking lots and razor wire, but they don't feel like home.

[bluegreen17]

here ya go

[silverwraith.livejournal.com]

they're putting up a new highway not too far from our house and they cut down this huge swath of trees to do it. I hate driving by those hills now. *sigh*

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

I completely understand. Living in one of the areas with the largest urban sprawl in the US, a piece of me dies each time I leave my house.

[mokie]

As...well, not antidote, you've already got that, but perhaps antibiotic? Think of the lost Aztec and Mayan ruins swallowed up by the jungle.

A huge cleared complex that used to be home to thousands, but the humans wander off for a couple of years and suddenly it's "Does anybody remember where we left the temple?"

We think we're the big shit on this planet, but we are, after all, just big naked tail-less monkeys. :)