Who needs or would want tv when you can look out and see so much wild life here all day long. 2 Rabbits now come to my lawn every morning and evening and are not afraid of me. Some
times I go outside and they never take off if they are allready there. They know it's a no animal eating zone.

I watched a video today of a patrolman freeing a moose caught by it's antlers in the chains of a swing set. He used bolt cutters. I would not try that one.

A humming bird comes to plants on my porch right next to the window.

A bird came very close to landing on my hand as I was sitting on the porch. It hovered right in front of me a foot away.

Who needs books when you have nature? Those who want what books can offer in addition to what nature can offer. TV is no different in this regard.

There could be rubbish books just as there could be rubbish TV. But there could be valuable books and valuable TV. Therefore it is not irrational to want the latter!

>Banana ice-cream rocks!<

Cool.
I guess no matter where you live,there is always something to watch outside your windows.

Spearhead said it well in their TV the Drug of the nation song.

I liked this poem on the subject of Idiots lanterns.
I feel for folks who can get off sitting in front of that box when the world
has it all live then some.





Television



The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone's place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)
They sit and stare and stare and sit
Until they're hypnotised by it,
Until they're absolutely drunk
With all that shocking ghastly junk.
Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,
They don't climb out the window sill,
They never fight or kick or punch,
They leave you free to cook the lunch
And wash the dishes in the sink --
But did you ever stop to think,
To wonder just exactly what
This does to your beloved tot?
IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!
'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say,
'But if we take the set away,
What shall we do to entertain
Our darling children? Please explain!'
We'll answer this by asking you,
'What used the darling ones to do?
'How used they keep themselves contented
Before this monster was invented?'
Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One half their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
The younger ones had Beatrix Potter
With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,
And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,
And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and-
Just How The Camel Got His Hump,
And How the Monkey Lost His Rump,
And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,
There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole-
Oh, books, what books they used to know,
Those children living long ago!
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books,
Ignoring all the dirty looks,
The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,
And children hitting you with sticks-
Fear not, because we promise you
That, in about a week or two
Of having nothing else to do,
They'll now begin to feel the need
Of having something to read.
And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!
You watch the slowly growing joy
That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen
They'll wonder what they'd ever seen
In that ridiculous machine,
That nauseating, foul, unclean,
Repulsive television screen!
And later, each and every kid
Will love you more for what you did.


Roald



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Thanks for that, Bill

Some of my best memories are of hiking and camping with my family.

One day we hiked along the Mississippi river and built a driftwood fire on a sandbar on the river's edge. We got tugboats to toot at us. I remember that from 50 years ago!

One vacation my family camped from Louisiana to Colorado and back. Fabulous experiences.

When my mother took us to parks we usually brought a sketch pad and found things to draw.

I could go on and on. Yes, live nature is better than TV.


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<<Who needs or would want tv when you can look out and see so much wild life here all day long. 2 Rabbits now come to my lawn every morning and evening and are not afraid of me. Some
times I go outside and they never take off if they are allready there. They know it's a no animal eating zone.


A humming bird comes to plants on my porch right next to the window.

A bird came very close to landing on my hand as I was sitting on the porch. It hovered right in front of me a foot away.>>

BEAUTIFUL!!!! absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!