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thanks for not starting a senseless noob thread..it is refreshing..welcome

Ok, you've endured my rant with intelligence and good humor... I like ye.

I dont purposely walk on flowers, and I generally avoid doing so, but I dont feel bad when I do.

Yeah, I can't stand to walk on flowers. There's just something cold about destroying something pretty.

Save for maybe those weeds (dandelions, right?).

Yeah. Fuck them.

you sound like a jaine (sp?) - i don't suppose you've taken to wearing a veil to prevent eating mites in the air?

Cough*Hippie*Cough... Oh Excuse me!

how is that different from you, exactly?

Sorry man, can't say I identify. Nature is a cruel cruel thing. When does it all stop? Will you someday try to interject into the lives of other animals? Stop the birds from eating bugs, the snakes from eating birds, wild dogs from eating snakes? I can empathize with wanting to leave as small a footprint on the planet as possible just from a sustainability standpoint, but animals are fucking animals when it comes down to it.

O god! you are the only one.

oh, come on! nobody?

Like the tie-dye effect on your user picture too. It makes me think that you're wearing sandals, shorts with lots of pockets that come down below your knees, and smell of patchouli.

In that case you're eating the children of the plants, and that's even more reprehensible.

Baby killer.



[Edited on Sep 30, 2005 by AceTracer]

There's an Eastern religious path that takes respect for all living plants and creatures in the literal sense, one of their monks will take a walk in the forest, but very slowly, and will watch where he steps in order not to crush any plants or insects. Their ultimate central claim is that life can be found in all living things, and so all things living should be treated with the same respect one would want to recieve him/herself.

You're not the only one, I don't step on plants, unless it's grass, which contributes absolutely nothing towards the ecosystem. One can call me a hippy, that's his/her ignorant way, but I have nothing to do with the communal or nomadic lifestyles of a 1960's youth cult, and wash regularly. I have a love of horticulture, and garden frequently, stepping on plants seems a bit idiotic to me. Park rangers always inform visitors not to step on plant life when entering nature reserves, it just makes sense. I have a hiker's guide on North-American wildflowers from the 1960's and a good 50-100 of the species in the book don't even exist anymore, or can hardly be found.

Vegetarianism however is not for me, meat is found regularly in my diet and if I couldn't buy it at a store I'd probably be fishing or raising bovines on my own somewhere out on the family farm.

It all boils down to respect for living things, but don't drive yourself crazy about such things, live your life, and try not to kill so many things on your way out. That's all.

i've actually heard of some really crazy fuckers that won't use plastic or gasoline, because they are oil by-products, and oil is basically dead animals from millions of years ago.


weird.

I can think of about 6,469,618,166 things that I care about more than I do about killing plants.

But a fruit isn't a tree's baby - it's a tree's ovary. The seed in the middle is the baby. She's a womb killer - there's a huge difference!

you would go nuts trying to walk around in my city, any time i visit another city i am in shock at the lack of foliage and grass and visable plants within one mile of my house there are four lakes and a river, way too many plants