(Yesterday, 05:51 PM)rickymouse Wrote: ...
I'll stay here in the UP and if I ever do move, it will be to a place which has even more nature, Squirrels and chipmunks and deer and other wild animals seem easier to deal with. The world of man is getting nuts, so I will go hang out with the animals that eat nuts.
That's why I moved back to these hyar hills. I spent most of my life in one city or another, but always in urban areas when I wasn't out poking around in a jungle or a desert somewhere trying to get myself shot - unsuccessfully, I might add..
Folks got too damned crazy out there, so I retreated back here, to live among the wildness. Unlike people, critters never do anything without a reason, and they don't do crazy very well - they're pretty much always predictable. You might not like what they're going to do, and you might have to poke 'em with a sharp stick for it, but it's almost always predictable what they are going to do next.
People, not so much. To coin an old phrase, "people is the craziest monkeys!"
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake