The Green Fire Film Project

This video is really appealing to me because I love nature and to do things outdoors. My parents, and grandparents always thought my sisters and I to enjoy nature, to take care of it. What I learned from this video is how important Leopold was and still is. I never heard of him before, I guess it could be because im not from this country, but I probably wouldnt know either. The passion that he put into what he believed was the best for all of us, and actually infuencing so many people through out the years is what I admire the most about him. There is a lot of people who believes on things, but never fully follow those beliefs having fear of what others can say about it, or that simply that because is just them it will not make a difference to the world. Leopold is a perfect example that by developing those ideas to make the world better at least just for what is around you, can make a huge difference in the long run.

Blog 2

1. I believe that when Leopold writes "only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf," the meaning of this sentence is that the mountain has been in taht place many many years, seeing everything that is attached to her, live and die, so beside the meaning that each individual can give to the howl of the wolf, the mountain knows the objective meaning. It doesnt mean to kill, it doesnt mean to scare, or to bring attention, it is something bigger than that, something somehow including all this but is something that scapes all of us and is only known by the mountain.

2. "In wildness is the salvation of the world" this idea by Henry David Thoreau is repetaed by Leopold on his essay. I think that Leopold might mean by sitting this, just to reinforce the idea that everything has a balance, that wildness that takes the animal to hunt, the deer to run from the wolf, the deer to eat the grass, the hunter to look up for the wolf, etc. all if this is just a set of roles that if is kept with balance, everything will be ok.

Thinking like a Mountain

I personally agree with Leopold on the idea of that "we all strive for safety, properity, comfort, long life, and dullness." which for me it can be summarize on a "happy and succesfull life." But like he also says "too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run." And combining this last sentence with the entire meaning of the essay, too much is never good, neither too little. There is a natural balance between everything that exists on this planet, we are all here in a certain time, in a specific place for a reason. We can see it all the time with examples, like the mountain and the wolf, or something bigger and more common, the relationship between human beings and earth. As humans we are constantly unbalancing the nature. On current days is the environment who has shown us that many things that we do, are on "the long run", bringing us more problems than solutions. Like global warming, less amount of food to distribute, more ilnesses, etc, etc. Nobody has the right to say what all the planet should do or not, although we willl think we are the most rational and "intelligent" specie in earth, so we should say what to do; but with all what is actually going on on this planet, are we as good as we believe?