When were you last stunned and amazed by nature?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

And where were you?

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Feb '04, Muir Woods

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Every day. It's what keeps me going.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Northern lights in the sky, two nights ago. I'd never seen them before. Holy shit.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago)

A couple of times in the last week. Winter tends to be more stunning than happy-beautiful, especially with lots of wind and rushing clouds.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

This morning, walking to work, being whipped around by frigid winds, feeling refreshed and alert. I am a dirty hippy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

"look at the moon!!"

(NB That is not my answer.)

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Comet Hale Bopp, truly awesome.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

On top of Mount Fuji in August. I felt like I was going to fall off the world.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I saw a sloth swim on TV once. It kind of did a breast stroke. That was cool. Other than that, constantly, I guess.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)

feeling refreshed and alert

Really? I felt alarmed and annoyed. Fucking wind.

Answer to the question: probably the last time I had sex. I mean, how cool is that?

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Every morning I cross the Thames on the way to work, and it seldom fails to thrill me. I don't know if it amazes me - my and sgs's road trip from Denver to Santa Barbara and back blew my mind every day (apart from the drive up central California).

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Northern lights in the sky, two nights ago

My girlfriend came sprinting back from her walk to drag me outside! I only caught the tail end of them, but it was still pretty cool. I also had never seen them before.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Wednesday morning 2am, I woke up and saw Orion and Sirius shining brightly in the sky. The world felt really just right.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I was also codwalloped by the Aurora Borealis the other night -- a spectrum fom aqua to violet that rose as a curtain, then advanced and retreated several times before falling away again.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

where do you all live, with your northern lights?

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Wisconsin

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

You can see them near Chicago, I hear, but the light pollution in the city itself mostly prevents good viewing from here. You can't see stars on a clear night around here, even.

― Kenan (kenan), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Apart from the torrential rain this morning, seeing the Farallons as clear as day on a sunny, fogless day, October 31 from Hwy 1.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Iowa here. I guess the northern lights were visible all over the upper midwest Monday evening.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

this morning, shepherds bush. a lovely crisp november morning can make even the ugliest spots pretty...

― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Every day. Ducks and Geese are popular round here.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Being in Canada I am stunned and amazed by how repetitive and dull 'nature' is. Who the fuck needs this much of it.

― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago)

When I came back from a few weeks in Australia a while ago, driving to work with frost and a light covering of snow everywhere, it looked so beautiful. Unfortunately by the time it came to go home, I hardly noticed, and haven't really since.

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

When I was walking through the uni and there this whole bunch of pigeons and right in the middle, a rainbow lorikeet.

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

watching tv and discovering that there's this particular plant in a particular forest that only grows when a particular bat eats a particular berry and then defacates in a particular place and the seeds grow and stuff, but only if those conditions are perfectly met. the particulars are vague now, but i was really impressed.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Semi-recently - September 24th. Zermatt, Switzerland. Did some hiking along trails which was really inspiring, then I went to the top of the Klein Matterhorn. 3883 metres. It was a bright and sunny morning. Like being on top of the world. Wow.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I love Dave Q, I do.

My own last moment -- the lunar eclipse. Quite wonderful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 November 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago)

I was at London Bridge today and early for doing an interview so I leant on a rail and gazed at the Thames. The water was grey and so was the sky and then after about 5 mins the clouds broke slightly and this shaft of light hit the dome of St Paul's and it looked like it was doing it on purpose.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Why do Chicago and Wisconsin get the aurorae and SE England doesn't? We're further north, dammit!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Constantly, really, but the specific occasion that leaps to mind was swimming in the surf in South Carolina during an offshore storm this past summer. I was basically life-guarding my nephews, who insisted on getting out in it a ways, despite the wind and the pounding the beach was taking. That'll get your blood going.

Seeing the Northern Lights is high on my list of Things to Do Before I Die.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 12 November 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.physorg.com/news121367164.html

recreational nature use steadily down over last 20 years, as 70s-80s crunchiness dwindled and video games rose

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 06:40 (seventeen years ago)

more about muir woods pls

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 06:40 (seventeen years ago)

This past Friday night my all time favorite meteorological phenomenon: THUNDER SNOW!

― kate78, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 07:03 (seventeen years ago)

I was at the Sea Life Centre in Brighton:

A Juveline Ray amazed me..

― Mister Craig, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 07:15 (seventeen years ago)

or even a Juvenile Ray. Forgive me, I only just woke up!

― Mister Craig, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 07:15 (seventeen years ago)

Last awesome one for me was watching the Leonid meteor shower in 2001. We dont usually get to see such things down south, but we did that time. Huge green rocks streaking across the sky at 3am. Fantastic.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 08:38 (seventeen years ago)

Coming from England, my mind was blown when I used "speed = distance/time" to figure out the size of a Nevada lake I was flying over which had no civilization around it for scale.

― caek, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 08:42 (seventeen years ago)

last week, me and my friend fishing on the river Dane in high winds and heavy snow, great fun. although got a bit worried that one of the bigger trees might have come crashing down on us.

― Ste, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 09:28 (seventeen years ago)

I've been stunned and amazed by nature constantly over the last month or so. Literally stunned. Specifically, by mountain cedar pollen.

WHAM!

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 09:29 (seventeen years ago)

At my olds' farm about a year ago i saw, from a distance, an eagle swoop down and pick up a hare and fly off. It was pretty amazing.

― W4LTER, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 09:39 (seventeen years ago)

Haha I was like, ooh what's a Juveline ray? I LOVE rays. Man, I have to take the baby to the Sea Life Centre soon, she's going to freak.

I was pretty amazed by a fox walking past our back window the other day. They do hang out down the end of the garden but I've never seen one so close to the house before.

― Archel, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 10:47 (seventeen years ago)

last week while browsing through the youtube thread and watching this classic footage for the first time. I need to get out of the city more.

― Cosmo Vitelli, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:01 (seventeen years ago)

actually, anytime i go fishing i'm amazed by nature.

my favourite moment was when a kingfisher landed on my rod, i just had to stay still watching it for about a minute before it did a poo and flew off.

― Ste, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:03 (seventeen years ago)

similar to ste: a bird once landed on my rod and then some stuff came out of it- it was quite weird yet amazing!!

― ken c, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

two months ago, surfing on achill is

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 10:22 (seventeen years ago)

I went walking on a path near my house last month when I came across a large tree which had been blown over in the winter weather. When it fell down, it had taken out two other very large trees domino-style. I wish I had been there for that, but seeing the aftermath was still pretty amazing.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 13:18 (seventeen years ago)

recreational nature use steadily down over last 20 years, as 70s-80s crunchiness dwindled and video games rose

-- gabbneb, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 06:40 (Yesterday) Link

more for me!

― gbx, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

Aug '07, lookin at the San Juan islands off Bellingham, WA and poking around for incredibly vivid purple starfish on the coastal rock piles.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

Late December, I spent New Year's with a friend's family in Munich and we took a day trip to the foothills of the Alps. Amazing, impressive "foothills" that just dropped off into a huge plain.

― Maria, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

poking around for incredibly vivid purple starfish on the coastal rock piles.

"tidepooling"

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

Not really pools so much as vertical stacks of worn-away rock with some cracks in between them. But carry on knowing better than everyone else.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

"sea stacks" ;-)

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

these were small rocks along the shore? i think that's still tidepooling. my mom once injured herself on those in the vicinity, tho I don't think it was the San Juans.

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

no sea stacks of bellingham, tbs

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

I always am. I am queen of the nature queers. I am grateful every day for fucking ENZYMES and the WATER CYCLE and fucking mosses and ferns and shit. Oh, it's all I think about. (I don't much care for being outside, however.)

― Abbott, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

last night i saw a wall cloud from the tornado that passed a mile north of our house. not only was i amazed, i was scared shitless as well. (i'm from the northeast. i'm not used to these southern storms)

― molly mummenschanz, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

Stormclouds are so insane and sublime!!!!

― Abbott, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 16:48 (seventeen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.