Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Articles
    • Contact Us
    • Disclaimer
    • Glossary
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
    • Subject Index
Home Home » HABITAT » Habitat diversity » On top of Table Mountain
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 12,246
Total number of hits on all images: 7,575,869

On top of Table Mountain

On top of Table Mountain
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 92 of 143  
Next Next
Image 94 of 143  
  • Main road Many Waters  to Spookberg via Rowerskloof
  • Mesemb competing but also gregarious
  • Mfezi, the Mozambique spitting cobra
  • Mosses in the Little Karoo
  • Narrowness may be imposed
  • Not in rows!
  • Odontophorus marlothii...
  • OK, only if left alone!
  • On top of Table Mountain
  • One kiepersol, many feroxes
  • Oopelta granulosa, a land slug
  • Ornithogalum toxicarium
  • Orthochilus odontoglossus
  • Ozoroa dispar where trees are rare
  • Patches of the same
  • Pelargonium tetragonum draped over its neighbours
  • Philenoptera violacea and browser

Image information

Description

Mountain tops are vegetated by predominantly cold-loving plants. Maybe other species will “climb” higher as the impact of climate change, particularly the warming phenomenon accelerates? Let us hope the top of Table Mountain retains its much admired character for many generations to come.

Forever doesn’t exist for the earth and life on it; never did. The forever in people's minds is continually being scaled down, imperceptibly eroded as population numbers grow and human behaviour remains unaffected by the implications.

How much do decision makers really care about which little flower blooms on a remote mountain top? Probably they do care a little more about what it may all mean for future life on earth.

Such a statement sounds so outlandish, of such remote relevance or sense to those participating in the city rat race. The participants in that race care about as much as treadmill rats would! It is a metaphorical rat mentality that allows human affairs regarding nature to continue on a business as usual path in the twenty first century. The signs in the skies, the waters and the earth should not be ignored, will increasingly be in people's faces. The crescendo of frenetic living with no care about the planet is not sustainable!

Is he mad? His ideas sound so! It must be the rarefied air, too much freshness in it that affects his thinking to write like this. He is sure to return to normal in the reality asylum down in the city. Safely immersed in everyday rat living, the unwanted reality can be ignored again.

Hits
395
Photographer
Ivan Latti
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery