April 19, 2009 - Earth Day

Welcome to the Nature Notebook.

April 22 is designated as Earth Day, a time to celebrate this wonderful planet on which we live. After a long winter of little activity, April bursts forth in wildflowers, young mammals and birds beginning to nest. The sun warms the earth and showers refresh the land. As conservationist and nature writer Sigurd Olsen wrote: “Joys come from simple and natural things, mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy, just as knowing animals and flowers and where they live. Such things are where you find them, and belong to the aware and alive. They require little scientific knowledge, but bring in their train an ecological perspective, and a way of looking at the world.”  Why not step outside and enjoy Earth Day?

This is PPL's naturalist, Jon Beam, with the Nature Notebook for WVIA.