I’ve always been a lover of Nature and almost anything related to it.  As a photographer I spend as much time as I can out-and-about communing with Mother Nature.  I come by it honestly because as a kid growing up I spent more than half of my time in the woods with my friends. We lived on the edge of huge state park directly adjacent to the Allegheny River and knew every inch of the place.  My father, a hunter, spent a lot of time explaining about local wildlife and how they lived and traveled in the wild. It was just a very cool place to grow up.

So I thought I’d share a few interesting factoids about Nature with you. Here they are.

• Every year the world’s deserts produce 1.7 billion tons of dust.
• Nature reserves and national park cover 3% of the worlds surface.
• Over 99.9% of the land on earth is not occupied by a person at a given time.
• A tenth of the world’s population relies on the Ganges for water.
• It takes one hundred years for the deep-sea clam to grow to the length of a third of an inch.

• Nearly half of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans since the beginning of the nineteenth century has been absorbed by the oceans.
• An estimated 30% of Earth’s ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved in livestock production.
• Since the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, the sun has become 25-30% hotter.
• More than 90% of the world’s rubies come from Burma (or whatever they’re calling it these days).
• Lake Baikal in Russia contains about 20% of the world’s fresh water.

That’s it for today. It’s time to turn off this computer and get to work in the yard. Winter’s coming and the garden has to be deconstructed.

ENJOY YOUR DAY OF REST