Mobbs Bioblitz 1 - Vernal and Verdant - let nature be your teacher.
The Jericho Conservation Commission welcomes the opportunity to host a spring edition of the BioBlitz at Mobbs Farm. The Mobbs Committee had a busy winter rallying the citizens of Jericho behind their effort to place a permanent conservation easement on the Mobbs property. Their efforts paid off when on Town Meeting Day 2021 the voters supported the initiative at the ballot box and the town is now in the early stages of drafting the easement with the Vermont Land Trust. Excellent News! And a win for current and future nature enthusiasts.
Since April is Poetry Month and that 's only a few days behind us I thought I would open this Blitz with one of my favorite poems.
Enjoy, and happy observing!
The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless—
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:—
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
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