Knowledge
Written by Web Manager Monday, 15 February 2010
One of the most important activities of the Tamborine Mountain Natural History Association Inc (TMNHA) is to discover, collect and communicate knowledge about the natural history of Tamborine Mountain.
"Natural History" means many things to many people. A general description may include:
- study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and interrelationships
- study of whole natural world including minerals and fossils
- study of the natural phenomena, especially plants and animals, of a particular time or place
- or visit Wikipedia for more information on its meaning.
TMNHA has its own long history including producing books, CDs, magazines, information sheets, displays and talks on local and related natural history topics. We hope to extend this through this website by;
- Specific natural history information in the Knowledge menu; and
- Life experience with our natural surroundings through our sub-group and affiliates menus in this website.
Please explore our website to learn about our natural history. You may also wish to consider joining one of these groups experiencing our natural environment.Their contact information is available in each of their menu areas.
If you have useful information to submit for our website, please use the contact form below.
Why does attentiveness to nature matter? In a very fundamental sense, we are what we pay attention to. Paying heed to beauty, grace, and everyday miracles promotes a sense of possibility and coherence that runs deeper and truer than the often illusory commercial, social "realities" advanced by mainstream contemporary culture. ... Our attention is precious, and what we choose to focus it on has enormous consequences. What we choose to look at, and to listen to--these choices change the world. As Thich Nhat Hanh has pointed out, we become the bad television programs that we watch. A society that expends its energies tracking the latest doings of the celebrity couple is fundamentally distinct from one that watches for the first arriving spring migrant birds, or takes a weekend to check out insects in a mountain stream, or looks inside flowers to admire the marvelous ingenuities involved in pollination. The former tends to drag culture down to its lowest commonalities; the latter can lift us up in a sense of unity with all life. The Way of Natural History, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Trinity University Press (Texas)
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TM Lyrebird Survey
