I couldn’t do this in 140 characters as Twitter allows per tweet so I decided to post it here because I felt it was too awesome not to memorialize.
I tweeted the following picture with the caption: Love how grand the earth is. Lush green can grow through the toughest concrete.
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@DavidWeedmark retweeted the pictured addding: Just @so_you_know Love it. Always a fav metaphor on why I don’t fear the end of the world. Life is irrepressible.
I liked that so much that I retweeted it back.
And then @VJaugelis retweeted the above and added: RT @DavidWeedmark RT @so_you_know Life is irrepressible/reminds me of the Wump World
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The Wump World by Bill Peet (1970) is a children’s book about imaginary creatures, known as Wumps. These Wumps look somewhat like a cross between a capybara (sometimes called a water hog) and a moose. The story about these Wumps takes place on their own planet, hence the name The Wump World. A race of blue humanoids named the Pollutians overruns the Wump World, causing the Wumps to flee to the safety of underground caves. The Pollutians build great cities and colonise, dirtying the air, water, and plowing down greenery. The Pollutians reach trouble when the air becomes too polluted, and their leaders send scouts to search for another planet. One scout returns, claiming that he has found a bigger and better world; upon hearing this news the entire Pollutian populace leaves the planet, leaving their ruined cities. When the world above grows quiet, the Wumps emerge to find a changed world, a deserted “concrete jungle”. The Pollutians, having used up every natural resource, have left; but all is not lost, as the book ends with a message of hope about nature’s ability to recover.
I think all that is pretty cool.
