
My life, and therefore my art,
reflects a love of Nature's Children, the little Wild Ones that
continue to inhabit our world in spite of our efforts to banish them
from our midst. We have so thoroughly tried to extinguish all of those
"dirty" little creatures out of our lives that most of the time the
advertising world speaks of them as pests to be rid of. In fact we have
an entire industry that has grown around the intent to be rid of them.
Fortunately for us, the more we have tried to banish them, the sturdier
and cleverer some of them have gotten.However,
we are rapidly reaching a point where we must reassess what we are
doing, and make some conscious choices about how we deal with these so
called pests. In fact, there are ways in which we may already have
reached the turning point in our need to assess the situation. Our
government has actually acknowledged that there may be something to all
this flap about global warming. Personally, I am not certain that what
we are doing is leading to actual global warming, but I am certain that
we are impacting Nature detrimentally.
That being said, there isn't a whole lot just one person or a family
can do about it, is there? Well . . . . . .yes, there is. Which is the
point of this page. Because we as a society have become so urbanized,
we are taking away the habitat of our little wild ones. They are
actually becoming more pesky in order to survive. Raccoons are digging
in trash barrels, coyotes have been seen in suburbs looking for food,
there is scientific evidence that bees are succumbing to some unknown
force in our world and disappearing. If they become extinct, our world,
as we know it, disappears.
So, what can we do? The scientists are still looking for the reason for the disappearance of the bees,
when they find the answers, if there is anything we can do, we will be
encouraged and entreated to do it. However, in the meantime, there are
small things we can do that will enable many of the little Wild Ones
to prosper. Among them are things like planting Nature Gardens or Wildlife Gardens. These little backyard habitats will encourage the little wild ones to live wild rather than become garbage scroungers.
Most
of us think of a wildlife habitat as being some vast expanse of land
and water as shown above. But truly effective habitat gardens need not
be large. Whatever amount of land you have and would garden anyway for
your own pleasure, is quite enough to create a space for the little
Wild Ones.
