Well, flowers and stones presumably can't feel, but I assume the large megafauna and birds inhabiting the dam area do.
Then again, I think the idea of having a planet with billions and billions and billions of people on it to be inutterably depressing.
The idea of terraforming Mars is even more depressing.
--- James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Today I read almost two pages
> In a book by a mystical poet
> And I laughed like someone who'd cried a lot.
>
> Mystical poets are sick philosophers
> And philosophers are crazy.
>
> Mystical poets say flowers feel
> And they say stones have a soul
> And they say rivers have ecstasies in the moonlight.
>
> But flowers wouldn't be flowers if they felt,
> They'd be people;
> And if stones had a soul, they'd be living things,
> they wouldn't be stones;
> And if rivers had ecstasies in the moonlight,
> Rivers would be sick people.
>
> You need to not know what flowers and stones and
> rivers are
> To talk about their feelings.
>
> Talking about the soul of stones, of flowers, of
> rivers,
> Is talking about yourself and your false thoughts.
> Thank God stones are only stones,
> And rivers are nothing but rivers,
> And flowers are just flowers.
>
> Me, I write the prose of my poems
> And I'm at peace,
> Because I know I comprehend Nature on the outside;
> And I don't comprehend Nature on the inside
> Because Nature doesn't have an inside;
> If she did she wouldn't be Nature.
>
> Alberto Caeiro da Silva (1889-1915)
> http://alberto-caeiro.blogspot.com/
>
>
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