The Frogs Have More Fun...

Flowers



"All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.

Fairy places, Fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames.
- These must all be Fairy names !"

(from Child's Garden of Verses
by R.L. Stevenson)


"Anyone can write a short-story.
A bad one, I mean."

(R.L. Stevenson)
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"Science without conscience is the Soul's perdition."
- Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel
- Acc to/above is citated from: Medical Apartheid. The dark history of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington (Doubleday ; 2006 ; p. 1.)

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"In the high society of the first half of the century, marriage, despite it's bestowal status upon the wife, was the most absurdity. Marriage, conferring instanteous rank or money, ... lost most of its prestige and moment right after the wedding. ...By the end of the century, spurred by Rousseau's moralistic Nouvelle Hèloíse, a contrary cult, that of virtue, arose. After 1770 conjugal and maternal love became not merely admissible, but, for some, moral imperatives. ...

[...]
...Rousseau, who sought for himself the crown of morality in ostensibly defending marriage, presents in his Nouvelle Hèloíse the most enticing and extended defense of illicit love ever penned. The root of the problem is that as the century progressed sensibility became confused with morality: passionate feeling, if expressed in a highly civilized mode with grace and nuance, makes us forgive the Rousseau of The Confessions, for example, his pettiness, his jealousies, his betrayals. This moral-amoral byplay, present already in the novels of Richardson, was to be more intense as the century unfolded."
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Madelyn Gutwirth : Madame De Staèl, Novelist. The emergence of the Artist as Woman (10,15.)

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"...As the social contract seems tame in comparison with war, so fucking and sucking come to seem merely nice, and therefore unexciting. ... To be 'nice', as to be civilized, means being alienated from this savage experience - which is entirely staged. [...] The rituals of domination and enslavement being more and more practiced, the art that is more and more devoted to rendering their themes, are perhaps only a logical extension of an affluent society's tendency to turn every part of people's lives into a taste, a choice; to invite them to regard their very lives as a (life) style." - Susan Sontag , on 'Fascinating Fascism' (-74; p 103;104-5 at Under the sign of Saturn)
; "Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day." (Goethe) - as cited by Sontag (on same compile; p. 137.)

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"It is widely accepted that we are now living in the 'Anthropocene', a new geological epoch in which the Earth's ecosystems and climate are being fundamentally altered by the activities of humans. I loathe the term, but I can't deny that it's appropriate."
; (Goulson), Silent Earth : Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021; p 47.)
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"It is sometimes said that humanity is at war with nature, but the word 'war' implies a two-way conflict. Our chemical onslaught on nature is more akin to genocide. It is small wonder that our wildlife is in decline."
; (Goulson, 2021 ; 118.)
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"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." (Voltaire)
- Citated from; (Joy, Melanie), Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows : An Introduction to Carnism(2010; p. 95.)
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"In the presence of the monster, you have eyes and ears for nothing else."
; (Flora Tristan) : London Journal of Flora Tristan: the Aristocracy and the Working Class of England ; 1842-edit. (tr: 1982. ; p. 71.)

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"Every minority invokes justice, and justice is liberty.
A party can be judged of only by the doctrine which
it professes when it is the strongest."
Mdme de Staêl
(on) 'Consideration sur le Révolution de la Francaise' [1818]


5/25/11

'The Undesigned Chapter' (Part IV)



Quite obviously, we've not very much had time for this chapter lately. Also, during summer - quite understandably, too - these posts are always more random and infrequent. So, this time I'll just devote most of it to gather some memoirs from what the material those disadvantageous and unlimitedly dishonest tactics by his Derpessivousness may have deprived from this page's offerings.

Seems that a few posts from these we've probably mentioned at some earlier posts ...But some probably were left unmentioned until this (that I now sort of recollect been). Nothing very extraordinary, perhaps, but seems that list at least would contain: A few book reviews (A biography, maybe couple those ...but I'll consider that there should be smthg similar on the undecided future); ...And also there was that book from the marine turtles (conservation); ...And a few naturalist classics, too. From fiction (books) there's probably been several too, but I cannot seem now recollect but that book from early romantic literatures and that other one from some 19th century realism/family chronicle (was it the Buddenbrooks? And, I guess there was smthg from Chekhov's short-stories too?). And probably some other books; Perhaps also reviews from some other realism work(s) from that golden century of the literatures? ...or Dante (Alighieri), maybe? Or something from Joyce, Twain or even Virginia Woolf, perhaps? ...Well, anyway, the few additional texts censured from here I recollect been (our) general attempt for to outline the scope of extermination of (some) animal species on Europes within some 1000 years socio-historical framings (about, etc). And then there was that inspired but frank commentary about asphalt, at least as I recall that was...but perhaps also something else which my mind has now skipped over(?).

Anyhow, let's  keep this short and just say that in the summer-time posts will probably be from this chapter and maybe little else. Maybe few comics for a while, or smth... And the above paragraphs only to gather those on some combined list (for later uses, perhaps). (W-G.)

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And - like now has become for the occasional regular content of these chapters - our spectacular insect 'guest'; this time it will be Bumble-bee. Them are (obviously) noted from being the best adapted species (from bees) to the Northern European Natures and also are - perhaps - the most successfull among (social) hymenopterous insects that we find.


Bombus hypnorum, on garden flowers (Around late March).

They're always on the move already earliest of Spring and practically untiresome - Around mid-summer, when there's adequate light throughout the day (24-hours time), they seem to fly almost 'day and nite'. Goes without sayin that they're among most important species on the pollination of various plants, not least many berries; ...blueberries and probably raspberries, (and others, etc). And - at least seem to me logical supposing - that they're relatively much generalists at their choices from plants (flowers and others alike), even though I've not viewed any particular study about that. Feels difficult to think some other such important insect for the ecology in general (although sure there is, but those many aren' t that so visible and common to see, probably). Not contradicting previously said, but from many (natural) flowers seems it in fact mentioned that they're especially 'designed' in a certain way - in a way that only bumble-bees fit for their pollination (ie they're species large-sized enough to reach for the blooms and to transfer flowers pollen from one plant to another).

Early at Spring there's not so much nectar on flowers,
 and them also seem remain still for while...


...And probably very much more there would be about Bumble-bees (but read it elsewhere). There's about over 10 separate species of Bumble-bees at the N.Europe's, all adapted to a certain kind environments and conditions. The species in the pics is - acc. my guess - Bombus hypnorum. I suppose it's around second most common species, only the yellow-striped some (B. lucorum) are probably more numerous and frequent from see. Not perhaps the most cute (among the insects); Or, not the most impressive from colorations; Or, not some of the rarest ...but they're certainly some from the most diligent. That is, in fact, so apparent and self-evident - from natures 'gifts' we typically tend think they are - that mostly we don't even pay attention for. (...But of course, the Bumble-bees have always had a very popular place on fx the children's literatures, there's numerous characters from them at stories...)


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