Over 213,000 people have now signed Letter to the Future and yesterday (25th May 2010), the RSPB and some furry friends went to Westminster to help prove just how many people are calling for better investment in nature ahead of the emergency budget scheduled for next month.
Find out how, why and what went on in the News blog
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I am so pleased so many people have signed the Letter to the Future, and I a so pleased to have joined this community, where people understand that we need to support nature. I do not normally say a lot out load, but after watching springwatch on TV and joining here, I would like to try and explain why I feel it is important that we continue to fight for nature and how we learn from nature.
Let me tell you something of myself first, I was raised traditionally in Idaho USA, by what I call "Old ones", that is elders, aunts and neighbors. My culture is Native American.
We used to spend a lot of time watching nature, and the old ones would explain, how we as people learned from nature our traditional ways, before we had greed, and how we must continue these ways.
One way that birds taught us was that the parents would come together, build a nest, call it home and have youngsters. Mother would look after the young in the nest, while the father would look for food and protect them. The youngsters would grow and when they matured enough they would leave the home. Eventually they would all fly off to another place or land, to look for food (migrate). They will return, because this was their home.
Thats the way we all used to be at one time not so long ago, is that the reason I try and go from the UK every year back to my Idaho reservation, perhaps so.
Sometimes we forget the path we supposed to travel, its so easy, because of money, look around you see people, there only interest is money, and materialistic things, there eyes are blinkered. This tunnel vision, greed, makes them forget what is important in the larger scope of this earth we live.
Another example of peoples perception, people have children, the government make laws that say when children are sixteen they can fend for themselves, because of this parents see this as "okay you kids, your sixteen now, time you left home etc". Sometimes things go horribly wrong and often do. Should we not look at the Greater Law of Nature, seeds fall from a tree, you watch them grow, do they all mature at the same time, no they mature when they are ready, you can not put a time limit on it, is that law not better than a Government Law.
I would just like to say I hope if at least one person thinks about what I have said, that will be good, because then they will tell others, if some of them start thinking, then the word will spread.
I will finish with another old saying, " The land does not belong to us, it is loaned to us by the Creator of life, to look after, for our children" Children are not just human beings, they are the animals, the plants, water, etc.
O' yonde ne Nanewenee ( we are all related )_