Snagged from the meme-licious Bela
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
In just over thirty-five years the American chestnut became a memory. The Appalachians alone lost four billion tress, a quarter of its cover, in a generation. A great tragedy, of course. But how lucky, when you think about it, that these diseases are at least species specific. Instead of a chestnut blight or a Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight-something indiscriminate and unstoppable that swept through whole forests? In fact, there is. It's called acid rain.
Well, f-list, you were just treated to perhaps the slowest paragraph from A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. Fallenwitch and I were just talking about it last night and I started reading it again. It's really quite good, it's about a man who decides to walk the Appalachian trail with a good friend (and seriously funny guy) and chronicles it. I spared you the Wallace Stegner book Beyond the Hundredth Meridian-John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West that my husband left near my laptop. No thanks necessary.
Hope you all are having a terrific day.
-Celeste
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
In just over thirty-five years the American chestnut became a memory. The Appalachians alone lost four billion tress, a quarter of its cover, in a generation. A great tragedy, of course. But how lucky, when you think about it, that these diseases are at least species specific. Instead of a chestnut blight or a Dutch elm disease or dogwood anthracnose, what if there was just a tree blight-something indiscriminate and unstoppable that swept through whole forests? In fact, there is. It's called acid rain.
Well, f-list, you were just treated to perhaps the slowest paragraph from A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. Fallenwitch and I were just talking about it last night and I started reading it again. It's really quite good, it's about a man who decides to walk the Appalachian trail with a good friend (and seriously funny guy) and chronicles it. I spared you the Wallace Stegner book Beyond the Hundredth Meridian-John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West that my husband left near my laptop. No thanks necessary.
Hope you all are having a terrific day.
-Celeste