Some everyday examples
Our day begins and ends with Unity. The beginning of
a new day is neither classified as day or night, but as the dawn, a mix
of the two. As night draws near, half of the cars on the highway
have their headlights on while the other half does not. This ambiguity
of lighting occurs as the day ends at dusk.
NWhen
night falls, there is a sense of Unity in all things covered by darkness
Hornsby Bend Biosolids Treatment Facility |
McKinney Falls State Park |
East Texas & Cockrell Butterfly Center |
Brackenridge Field Laboratory |
Catching insects was quite a challenge. Most flying insects are fast and the ones on the ground are small and run fast, and of course many of them can sting or bite, but you get used to it and become pretty proficient with a net. We mostly used butterfly nets, but if a bug wasn't a flyer and if you thought you could handle it, you could just pick it up with your hands and place it in what were appropriately called "kill jars." Kill jars were glass jars about the size of a jelly jar. The bottom had about an inch of plaster that soaked up ethyl acetate. About an ounce of ethyl acetate was poured in and when it was thoroughly soaked it, it left the plaster dry, but also created a kind of gas chamber that would kill any insect within seconds. There were many debates as to whether we had the right to kill insects, or whether they could feel pain, or whether they had souls. Tempers were raised, feelings bruised, but in the end, we didn't have a choice. The collection was one-fourth of our grade. Aquatic insects, larvae, and non-insect arthropods were placed in vials filled with a 90% solution of ethyl alcohol. Non-insect arthropods were any organism that fell into the subphylum Arthropoda, but were not in the class Hexapoda. These were any arthropod that didn't have six legs, things like scorpions, pill bugs, crayfish, centipedes and millipedes, etc.