tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1364735433600514460..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The Ancients: Great Basin Bristlecone PineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54874666321142688202012-05-22T03:16:27.540-07:002012-05-22T03:16:27.540-07:00Kevin, Michael,
Let's go together.
No names ...Kevin, Michael,<br /><br />Let's go together.<br /><br />No names attached to our ancient remains!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78168739389070144872012-05-21T11:45:53.547-07:002012-05-21T11:45:53.547-07:00As always Tom: thank you.As always Tom: thank you.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15874588223701327932012-05-20T23:20:10.969-07:002012-05-20T23:20:10.969-07:00It's a place I've always wanted to visit. ...It's a place I've always wanted to visit. Now more than ever.-K-https://www.blogger.com/profile/03289562368002376807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57157941066474788292012-05-20T22:02:53.052-07:002012-05-20T22:02:53.052-07:00The fate of Prometheus represents a sad parable of...The fate of Prometheus represents a sad parable of the intervention of the "scientific mind" (?) into the processes of nature.<br /><br />The new fast world has a long reach, all that's left to the old slow world is patience.<br /><br />Will Pinus longaeva outlast homo sapiens?<br /><br />Now that Prometheus has been chopped down, it's very likely the oldest surviving non-clonal organism on Earth is a Pinus longaeva over on the California side, in the so-called Patriarchs Grove.<br /><br />But once burnt, twice shy. Nobody's putting up any signs identifying trees by putative age. Such signs would amount to bull's eyes, for more un/scientific target practise.<br /><br />God to murderer of the Ancient One:<br /><br />"So why did you have to go and cut it down then, Dr. So-and-So?"<br /><br />"Because we could, of course! Plus -- cool souvenirs!!"TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46061082226557350472012-05-20T10:41:11.385-07:002012-05-20T10:41:11.385-07:00Tom, the pictures are the best antidote to the ugl...Tom, the pictures are the best antidote to the ugly facts pertaining to Prometheus' untimely death. Or should I say, murder-by-science?Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20385442973539116862012-05-20T09:35:51.442-07:002012-05-20T09:35:51.442-07:00The trees are telling us a tragic tale, it seems. ...The trees are telling us a tragic tale, it seems. So many signs around us. Hard not to read them.<br /><br />Prometheus. I remember reading about that. So sad. <br />But I didn't remember the naming. Beautiful.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39956342739505564312012-05-20T09:28:22.594-07:002012-05-20T09:28:22.594-07:00wonderful...thanks Tom!!wonderful...thanks Tom!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2058746118269079322012-05-20T09:19:40.506-07:002012-05-20T09:19:40.506-07:00http://weburbanist.com/2008/10/19/ghost-town-aband...http://weburbanist.com/2008/10/19/ghost-town-abandoned-city-examples-images/<br /><br />Quite a contrast!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66025875985118590742012-05-20T08:36:11.250-07:002012-05-20T08:36:11.250-07:00Great Basin National Park
A good location for a p...Great Basin National Park<br /><br />A good location for a poetry<br />conclave honoring Gary Snyder<br /><br />In search of Gary Snyder from<br />logging to the humped- backed<br />flute player...the ancient<br />bristle cone pines an American<br />DelphiElmo St. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01588245143022651357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80871918764166936502012-05-20T08:26:39.203-07:002012-05-20T08:26:39.203-07:00Tom,
"you were already an old one. . .
In ...Tom,<br /><br />"you were already an old one. . . <br /><br />In the high air of the driest place on earth"<br /><br />Every time I've over there on 395, heading up into the Sierra, I always look east toward the White Mountains, wanting to go see them (those trees), and now I want to go see them with Johnny (before it's too late!). . . .<br /><br />5.20<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, shape of crow flapping from left <br />foreground, no sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> recent past, began painting<br /> so that they appeared<br /><br /> intimate, one could not ask<br /> for more, abstraction<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green slope of ridge across itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14984587527731502832012-05-20T06:51:20.104-07:002012-05-20T06:51:20.104-07:00Is climate change making The Ancients migrate towa...<a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/in-ancient-pines-a-startling-shift-in-tree-rings/" rel="nofollow">Is climate change making The Ancients migrate toward the sky?</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16393992401831165462012-05-20T06:16:12.425-07:002012-05-20T06:16:12.425-07:00Patriarch Grove--
Nature clearly reverences its o...Patriarch Grove--<br /><br />Nature clearly reverences its own.<br /><br />I hope I'm as gnarled and "tightly-swirled" one day.Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.com