Have you ever taken someone out hunting who just doesn't seem to appreciate what he's seen and done?

We bump into a doe which moves to within 20 yards trying to figure us out (unsafe shot not taken) and a big big buck (out of season) that stands for 5 minutes allowing me to point him out and to be viewed. Perfectly framed in the trees stamping his feet at us.

Friend walks like in the park, drifts into daydream, continuously walks 3 steps past me when I stop and at the end of it is utterly unmoved by the fact that he got really close to some beautiful wild animals.

I just don't understand it.

Some people just seem to walk around with their heads in a bubble.

What was that thing about casting pearls before swine? I think you said it all in your title: Some people just don't get it.

I've had similar comments along the lines of, "Oh, I've seen that on T.V. before"; or they've been to a circus or zoo, so they've seen everything.

I've known people that love the mountains for the view, recreation and the weather, but would be perfectly happy if there were absolutely no animals there to get in the way.

Some of us still have a spark in our soul that connects with the land, the animals and the earth. Unfortunately modern man might as well be a mindless robot. We've gotten too far away from a rural life. People think food grows in grocery stores.

I used to think that I would have liked to have been born 100 years earlier. In reality I guess I just would have preferred to have lived my life backwards.

Start with all the modern conveniences and medicines, then slowly learn to live without them as they disappear.

Right now I'd be living in 1892. Sounds good to me.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not live" - Henry David Thoreau

[ 12-09-2002, 18:54: Message edited by: Nickudu ]