IVORY-BILLS LiVE???! ...<img src="http://bit.ly/gpgbfx" width="275" height="115">: -- "Ambivalence Permeates..." --

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"....The truth is out there."

-- Dr. Jerome Jackson, 2002 (... & Agent Fox Mulder)

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

-- Hamlet

"All truth passes through 3 stages: First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thursday, September 16, 2010

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"When I start thinking about ivory-billed woodpeckers, I find it hard to stop. They hitch and flap and peck around in my head; they make me think about large issues, like extinction, and small things, like the look in their eyes, the gloss of their feathers."

I'm feeling a tad nostalgic today, so just a link back to one of Julie Zickefoose's wonderful pieces written over a decade ago (before Sparling, before Cornell, before Auburn, before Kulivan) that most of you have no doubt already read:

http://www.juliezickefoose.com/writing/ibw.php?id=1
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# posted by cyberthrush @ 7:19 PM

Comments:

Thanks so much for the shout-out, Cyberthrush! That piece is going in my upcoming book, which BTW is not an anthology, but I still like it; it's still oddly germane without changing a word, and I want to paint more ivory-bills. Saving them for dessert!

# posted by

Julie Zickefoose : 9:54 PM

Glad to hear you have a new book on the way JZ (in time for Christmas??? ;-) And of course hoping you get the chance to paint more IBWOs one day... from fresh photos!

# posted by

cyberthrush : 6:04 AM

"....The truth is out there."

-- Dr. Jerome Jackson, 2002 (... & Agent Fox Mulder)

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

-- Hamlet

"All truth passes through 3 stages: First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thursday, September 16, 2010

-- "Ambivalence Permeates..." --

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"Since the first sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, this has consumed us. We have dedicated our time and our dreams to protecting and conserving this area. These woods are my church."

-- John Fitzpatrick Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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"The Ivory-bill LIVES; it makes the sunshine just a little sweeter, doesn't it?"

-- Scott Weidensaul

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"...reports of my death are GREATLY exaggerated."

-- Mark Twain

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=> This work licensed under a
Creative Commons U.S. License <=

==> This website hereby dedi-
cated to the memory of
John V. Dennis and George
H. Lowery Jr., whose
optimism, in the face of
doubt and skepticism, was
never in vain.

"Every man takes the limits of

his own field of vision, for the

limits of the world."

-- A Schhmorgasbord of
Asundry Science Links:

"Nature has her own mode of
doing each thing, and she has
somewhere told it plainly, if
we will keep our eyes and
ears open."

"In nature, improbabilities
are the one stock and trade."

"Since the first sighting of
the Ivory-billed Woodpecker,
this has consumed us. We
have dedicated our time and
our dreams to protecting
and conserving this area.
These woods are my church."

-- John Fitzpatrick Director,
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

"The Ivory-bill LIVES;
it makes the sunshine just a
little sweeter, doesn't it?"

"...reports of my death are
GREATLY exaggerated."