Monday, July 26, 2010

Cows Along the Blue Ridge

Hiking along a trail this weekend at the Moses Cone Manor, Milepost 294 on the Blue Ridge Parkway, we spotted cows facing in the same direction as they grazed. It turns out that cows all over the world graze in a north-south orientation, perhaps influenced by the earth's magnetic fields. Pictures from Google Earth confirmed this phenomenon in 2008.

Facts like this make me wonder. What would happen if we could amass the knowledge of all of the earth's creatures and make use of their wisdom? Unleash a new power perhaps? Render our weapons obsolete and sideline our technology?

The cows and the birds and the pesky mosquitoes could all teach us something, if only we could figure out how to listen.

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