It's been a while, and I'm about to blog about turtles. Over a month of silence and all I've got to talk about is turtles? Well, sit back and read this rant. Ok, I work on a busy Raleigh road. When I first started at my new job, there was a small wooded lot beside my office building. In the last couple of weeks, they have been clearing the lot of all the trees and leveling the land to begin building some sort of business center. On my way home today, I realized that I was a bit sad about human devastation to all the natural resources on this planet. I know that once they finish building that business center that they will go in and plant some trees. But some of those trees that they callously cut down were probably older than me. I'm not a nature nut by any stretch of the imagination. But on my way home today, in the sickening heat, I saw this cute little turtle inching its way along the sidewalk by that busy road. At first, I was happy to have spotted the little critter. But then my heart fell because I knew it was unlikely to survive either along that busy road or in the horrendous NC heat. And then my next leap in logic was "I wonder if this little guy's home was in that wooded lot that's been pulvarized." I can't know that for sure, but it's not just trees you destroy when you level land...it's the homes of so many creatures too. If I was more philosophical, I would wax poetic on whether or not hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters are the leveling from some higher being we can't see. But I felt a little bad for that poor little turtle.

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