It’s refreshing when the underdog wins

I pull for the underdog. I enjoy seeing the helpless and bullied rise up victoriously over circumstances and individuals that seek to suppress or control them. I want the tortoise to beat the hare, which mocks and jeers at him for being slow.

I don’t like seeing nature taken for granted. I’m not against cities – I was born in a city, and I live in a small one, but I’m against mindless abuses of nature, like clear-cutting forests, polluting our communities’ air and water. I’m against building new buildings, with half a city abandoned, to where wildlife have nowhere to roam but our highways. I’d rather see the pines than billboard signs.

I’ve always related to the Lynyrd Skynyrd lyrics in

All I Can Do Is Write About It

(allen collins — ronnie vanzant)

Well this life that Ive lead has took me everywhere

There aint no place I aint never gone

But its kind of like the saying that you heard so many times

Well there just aint no plae like home

Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young

Or a fish in a river swimming free

Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of carolina

Or the sweetness of the grass in tennessee

And lord I cant make any changes

All I can do is write em in a song

I can see the concrete slowly creepin

Lord take me and mine before that comes

Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin

Do you like to see a youngun with his dog

Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin

Well you better listen to my song

And lord I cant make any changes

All I can do is write em in a song

I can see the concrete slowly creepin

Lord take me and mine before that comes

Im not tryin to put down no big cities

But the things they write about us is just a bore

Well you can take a boy out of ol dixieland

But youll never take ol dixie from a boy

And lord I cant make any changes

All I can do is write em in a song

I can see the concrete slowly creepin

Lord take me and mine before that comes

cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin

Lord take me and mine before that comes

I don’t see nature as being defeated though.

Nature, like the toroise is slow and steady,

and in many instances nature wins the race