{"id":9752,"date":"2014-12-14T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2014-12-02T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T23:53:54","slug":"neatness-is-not-a-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=9752","title":{"rendered":"Neatness is Not a Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer we were given a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Voices-Land-Jamie-Purinton\/dp\/1931498504\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417564197&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=Voices+of+the+Land\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Voices of the Land<\/strong><\/em><\/a> a collection of essays and photographs. It was a gift from our friends from life Bonnie and Kai Underwood.\u00a0 It sat on our coffee table unread and unthanked until it rained the other day.\u00a0 It was our first real rain in about eight months and it put me into a nesting mood.\u00a0 Part of that was picking up this delicious book and reading a few of it&#8217;s essays.\u00a0 It is excellent.\u00a0 A sampler from the essay <em>Neatness is Not a Virtue <\/em>by Charles Canham:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>With the power to pervasively transform nature comes a responsibility to accept stewardship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Neatness is not a virtue in nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We clear-cut virtually all of the forests of the Catskills in the mid-1800&#8217;s to use the bark to tan leather.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9753\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=9753\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg?fit=2310%2C2254&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2310,2254\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1417523328&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2310\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg?fit=700%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9753\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310-300x292.jpg?resize=300%2C292\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg?resize=300%2C292&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg?resize=1024%2C999&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg?resize=250%2C243&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg?resize=900%2C878&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2310.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer we were given a copy of Voices of the Land a collection of essays and photographs. 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