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Re: A note about Steve Irwin

Subject: Re: A note about Steve Irwin
From: "antonio celis" tony_celis
Date: Tue Sep 5, 2006 10:48 am (PDT)
Bernie,

It is very nice what you wrote. I like those three
lessons.

Thanks

Antonio Celis


 --- Wild Sanctuary <>
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> At some point, those who have worked in the wild
> actually begin to
> believe in their own invulnerability. We take
> chances we shouldn't
> when the camera is (or isn't) rolling just to
> demonstrate what we
> come to believe is some super connection to the wild
> natural - a
> state most of us have little or no clew about
> despite all the bravado.
>
> Problem is that the wild natural critters - large or
> microscopic -
> don't much care about the human sense of the world.
> They've clearly
> got their own agendae as Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly
> Man), Jane
> Goodall (who got badly beaten up and nearly killed
> by one of her most
> habituated chimps, Frodo, while we were on site at
> Gombe recording in
> the early 90s), Dian Fossey (who didn't get iced by
> one of her
> beloved gorillas but as an indirect result of them,
> nontheless), and
> many other field researchers who have taken one
> chance too many and
> discovered too late the folly of their decision(s).
>
> Humans, no matter how we choose to characterize
> ourselves, are both
> predator and prey, and that condition is skewed not
> in our favor
> every time we meet the world unprepared
> psychologically and
> emotionally. In the forty years I've been working in
> the field, I've
> come within a hair's breath of oblivion on three
> occasions - once in
> the Arctic, once in the Antarctic, and once in
> Rwanda and god knows
> how many others I'm not aware of. Three lessons
> learned: Avoid
> arrogance, stupidity, and always remain aware of
> your surroundings.
>
> Bernie Krause
>
>
> --
> Wild Sanctuary
> P. O. Box 536
> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
> t. 707-996-6677
> f. 707-996-0280
> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
>


Antonio Celis Murillo
Center for Conservation Biology
University of California Riverside

208 University Laboratory Building
Riverside, CA 92521-0334
(951) 827-5484




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