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Elliot (also spelled Eliot, Elliott, Eliott and Elyot) is a personal name which can serve as either a surname or a given name. Although the given name was historically given to males, females named Elliot have increased from 414 in 2009 to 770 in 2013. The origin of the surname is obscure, perhaps due to much of the genealogy of the Eliott clan being burnt in the destruction of the castle at Stobs in 1712 AD. Read more
Hiking in Canada and the USA is the preferred term for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks. On the other hand, in the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, the term walking is used to describe all forms of walking, whether it is a walk in the park or backpacking in the Alps. The word hiking is also sometimes used in the UK, along with rambling, hillwalking, and fell walking. In New Zealand a long, vigorous walk or hike is called tramping.[1] It is a popular activity with numerous hiking organizations worldwide, and studies suggest that all forms of walking have health benefits. Read more
Squatting is an action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building – usually residential[1] – that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.
Author Robert Neuwirth suggests that there are one billion squatters globally, that is, about one in every seven people on the planet.[2] Yet, according to Kesia Reeve, “squatting is largely absent from policy and academic debate and is rarely conceptualised, as a problem, as a symptom, or as a social or housing movement.” Read more
Worldwide, horses and other equids usually live outside with access to shelter from the elements. In some cases, animals are kept in a barn or stable, or may have access to a shed or shelter. Horses require both shelter from wind and precipitation, as well as room to exercise and run. They must have access to clean fresh water at all times, and access to adequate forage such as grass or hay. In the winter, horses grow a heavy hair coat to keep warm and usually stay warm if well-fed and allowed access to shelter. Read more
Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. Social media is defined as “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.” Read more
Typography, from the Greek words τύπος typos “form” and γράφειν graphein “to write”, traces its origins to the first punches and dies used to make seals and currency in ancient times. The uneven spacing of the impressions on brick stamps found in the Mesopotamian cities of Uruk and Larsa, dating from the 2nd millennium BC, may have been evidence of type where the reuse of identical characters were applied to create cuneiform text. Read more
If a person were to retreat to a cabin in the woods for two years, what would they write about? How hard it was physically, with no heat, air-conditioning, electricity, or running water? The privations they endured with little to eat or drink? How Nature intruded incessantly from all sides? “The damn mice are eating everything and I’m freezing my ass off.”
I suspect most of us would view it as a negative experience and we were the worse off for having done it. Needless to say, no one would want to hear about it.
As for those of us who are willing to rough it, how would our journal read? A dull trudge of repetitive entries of our boring time in the woods? “I saw some birds today, but I don’t know what kind they were and I sure as hell wouldn’t know their Latin names.” Perhaps one or two of us could come up with something passing as readable, such as an outdoor writer might deliver.
But only Thoreau could do the unthinkable and relate the finest and highest of human thought to everyday natural phenomena, as if it were fairly obvious the two should go together. After pondering his thoughts and musings you start to see the world his way and it begins to look different. This is why we read books.
Thoreau questions some of the accepted habits and aims of modern man. He makes a compelling argument that some of these behaviors are illogical and go against the grain of Nature. If he thought people were living too-far-removed from Nature back then, I wonder what he would think now.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
:: Isaac Asimov
