{"id":6769,"date":"2017-07-31T21:37:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2017-07-31T21:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:39:56","slug":"trashing-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=6769","title":{"rendered":"Trashing Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/EagleRock1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/EagleRock2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t gone hiking much lately &#8212; that&#8217;s become another casualty of old age for me. But I did get around to a short stroll not long ago up in one of the local &#8220;mini-forest&#8221; preserves nearby (Eagle Rock Park in Essex County, NJ).  It certainly was nice to be surrounded by woods and sunshine once again.   <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, natural spots in urban areas are too often littered with human debris.  So, the first shot shows a typical Eastern woodland scene on a typical summer morning.  And despite the &#8220;typicality&#8221; of the scene, I think it&#8217;s quite easy to see the sacredness of nature in it, the preciousness of the living layer that envelops our planet.  The next shot shows a soda can that someone felt they could discard at a spot like this, as though it was just another human garbage dumpster.  How can people be so blind? This is hallowed ground!!<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the world has much bigger problems today than litter in a park.  E.g., nuclear missiles in North Korea, Donald Trump, access to health care, wage stagnation, climate change . . . where do you begin?  Well, I think you begin with every individual&#8217;s mind and soul.  And throwing garbage in a forest is a sign of a much deeper flaw in human character, a flaw that ultimately manifests itself as an increasingly troubled world.  So start small and don&#8217;t trash the forest!   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t gone hiking much lately &#8212; that&#8217;s become another casualty of old age for me. But I did get around to a short stroll not long ago up in one of the local &#8220;mini-forest&#8221; preserves nearby (Eagle Rock Park in Essex County, NJ). It certainly was nice to be surrounded by woods and sunshine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6772,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}