Naturalist Jim Conrad on
NATURE, MAN AND
THE UNIVERSAL CREATIVE FORCE
Essays from his Naturalist Newsletter
COPYRIGHT MATTERS:
(c) Jim Conrad 2006
This publication is made
freely available to anyone who wants it. You can download it, print it on paper, and give it
away if you want. You can even print it out, bound it and sell the finished
product. I got my payment living the days the book describes. Just don't change
around my words and thoughts. That's why I'm copyrighting it, to keep you from
changing it.
If you feel like sending me
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feel bad. I'm just happy you were interested in what I had to say. Still, even
a single dollar would be appreciated.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank the owners of the
places where I lived during the years when I wrote the following.
PREFACE
In early 1997, at age 49, I
pulled a tiny, hangdog-looking trailer into the woods of a large plantation a
few miles south of Natchez in southwestern Mississippi and began
living there. Mornings I'd work in the plantation's garden, then the rest of
the day I'd study and work on the Internet. I'd strung wires through the woods
for the Internet connection.
During my years there,
thanks to the Internet, I always felt well connected to the world, even though
sometimes I spent entire months without speaking a single word to anyone. On
the Internet I created several web sites and exchanged emails with people all
over the world