In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered between 1950 and 2003 declared that if current trends of fishing and pollution continue, every fishery in the world's oceans will collapse by 2048...The oceans as an ecosystem would completely collapse.
Peter HellerTag: oceans conservation page-275 whales
The albatross hit the top and canted her soft belly to the storm, and made a screaming banked peel-out downwind and over the other side. I don't know if anyone else on the ship saw her. To me, she was a visitation. Not harbinger or annunciation, but a simple reminder of a wold that worked, that was at home with itself and friends with storm.
Peter HellerTag: conservation antarctica page-194
Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.
Peter HellerTag: risk wilderness outdoors kayak
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
Peter HellerTag: sadness loneliness grief depression grieving
Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.
Peter HellerTag: life nature death-and-dying dying
Still. No resolution ever. None. Nothing decided, nothing finished. The Dipper wheels back into place. Just one turn. One turn of the wheel and we are different, never the same. Not ever. Not even those stars. Even they, they decay, collapse, coalesce, break apart. Close my eyes.
Peter HellerI think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
Peter HellerTag: happiness extinction fleeting-thoughts
Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.
Peter HellerWe have traveled.
Now you will be the path
I will walk I will walk
Over you.
Can you fall in love through a rifle scope?
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