...plants of this world that give us our oxygen. We should thank our plants and trees everyday!
2007-01-24 17:55:49 · 17 answers · asked by Joey's Back 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Mr E: Plants are living organisms...scienticic fact: they DO respond to voice and touch!
As for the explanation: Duh!
2007-01-24 18:23:03 · update #1
While I do not agree with the radical tree huggers of the world--some of them DO go way too far--I was referring to the fact that some take pride in not being "tree huggers". I only refer to it as a reference to someone who cares about the environment. How can anyone live on this earth and not care about the very soil under our feet and the air we breathe? Some seem to think think that "tree hugger" is synonymous with "liberal", and to show distain of liberals, will call themselves the perceieved opposite. Well, the opposite of liberal is "conservative", not "not a tree hugger".
Why am I a wacko, pinko, subversive for wanting clean air and water? Those things are necessary to our well-being as humans. I don't think that caring about the environment is such a radical point of view.
As for, "you'll be dead in 13 years..."--that was an uncalled for and unprovoked attack and I greatly resent it. I am already 60 and hope to see my youngest grandson reach adulthood.
2007-01-25 05:18:27 · update #2
To be happy about the prospect that someone may die in a short period of time is TRULY sick!!! I hope that kind of thinking is not prevalent among all conservatives.
Can't we agree to disagee without all of the personal crap?
2007-01-25 05:21:09 · update #3
People who care little to nothing about the environment use the phrase as an insult. People who care deeply about the earth use it as a badge of honor. Conservatives care nothing for the environment. To them it is something to be paved over. Something to make money from. Something to ignore until the masses scream about it. They laugh at the phrase without absorbing it's meaning.
To love the earth, to want to protect it from harm, to want to rebuild it, is something they do not understand. CAN not understand. To use the name Not A Tree hugger is sad. It shows a lack of respect for the earth. That is someone who would take the garden of Eden and cut it down to sell a toothpick factory. That is someone who is ignorant and should be pitied.
2007-01-24 18:15:02 · answer #1 · answered by korngoddess1027 5 · 4⤊ 5⤋
While I app recite trees! Love the shade in the hot summer days. Love seeing the leaves budding and blossom in the spring. Love the nature spectacular painting of different colors in the fall. I am just not into actually hugging a tree. I make sure that no litter is around (hate litter).
2007-01-25 02:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by wondermom 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why stop there...thank the dirt for which the trees grow in, thank the earth for providing a place for dirt, thank the universe for providing us with our planet, thank the big bang for the universe. On the bright side, maybe one day the trees will thanks us for using our technology in preventing a asteroid of cataclysmic proportion from wiping them out.
Postscript:
I believe there should be a balance in all things. Right now on our bodies there are organisms eating away without our permission.
Also I do find it amusing that the anti-corporate rhetoric is coming by way of computers and cable wires.
2007-01-25 02:22:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, I thank my lucky stars that everybody in the country isn't 100% liberal, or 100% conservative, or 100% Neocon (Neocons are surely a class unto themselves.)
Liberals are a never ending voice of conscience. They tend to have a Utopian view of life that abandons all sense of practicality.
Conservatives take practicality to a fault. They tend to consume with no vision of tomorrow.
Neocons have absolutely no connection to the real world whatsoever and have no tolerance for any views other than their own.
Thank goodness for the moderates. They keep everything from going to hell in a hand-basket.
2007-01-25 07:15:42 · answer #4 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
perhaps i have too generalized a view of tree huggers. im not enthused about the way they are in my face on a lot of issues. but they have opened a lot to the rest of the world concerning the environment. i don't understand why they are so hellbent on saving trees, but love to smoke weed. understand that trees are a renewable resource, they should be harvested for their wood, but just be reasonable, they're not going to cut down the entire forest, there's no job security in it.
2007-01-25 08:14:34 · answer #5 · answered by alex l 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I would say watch this penn and teller show to see why some of "the tree huggers" go to far.
everything is good in moderation.
2007-01-25 02:25:52 · answer #6 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Hee. I love trees. (At least tree-huggers, unlike most conservative Republicans, can proudly announce that they love trees and nature and human life more than money.) I'm planning right now what to put in my big new backyard garden this spring.
2007-01-25 02:06:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
You are a lib so I will take this slow.
It is a funny name because we conservatives call you libs tree-huggers.
She is not a tree hugger.
She is a good conservative.
Get it or do you need more time?
EDIT - you talk to plants and trees. Not a good sign of sanity.
2007-01-25 02:01:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
lol.
hugging trees... sounds a little retarded if not "funny"
... How about thank the Creator for those trees, intead of thanking them? They have no ears.
2007-01-25 02:10:04 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Agappae 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Ok, I"m thanking my mixed greens, just before I eat them.
Happy?
2007-01-25 02:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋