Owarish Nature Appreciation Project (ONAP)
The purpose of this project is to create and publicize the so-called green spaces as attention getters. The Owarish family has donated several plots of lands of different shapes and forms for all of us to enjoy in this context to admire the beauty of nature (Project Coordinator: Frank Owarish). The project is dedicated to Noel Brown.
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With a busy life, most of us fail to stop and look and admire the beauty that nature has to offer. There is so much taken for granted. You may recall this citation: “What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare” (William Henry Davies, Leisure, Songs of Joy) Tribute to my father and mother for teaching me the abc of nature appreciation and human beauty; here is a sample to honor you (credit: panflutelistener, youtube, vangelis) John Denver came to visit me at my office at UNITAR; he was interested in efforts to promote an awareness of the environment and related issues; there is no better way to accomplish his wish than to promote nature appreciation; here is a tribute to him (gone too soon): Nature at its best (credit: youtube, vangelis, oneil1969) Nature appreciation via Chopin (credit youtube, clayderman, oroyaperuviana) |
It is worth remembering that “nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own” (Charles Dickens) The intricacies of life: Life is a journey with ups and downs. I wish to thank my wife Jocelyne for standing by me and helping me through nature brings us peace; credit journey, youtube,silliepooh This is where I grew up and started to appreciate nature, often listening to Tchaichowsky on the portable boombox; this clip pays a special tribute to my little sister Shireen, who has been a constant support in my life; she and her husband built a resort by the seaside where I often go to keep on appreciating the nature we grew up with; credit youtube, vravishing We have lost our daughter Clarel, gone too soon (tribute on the main page) here's one of here favorites, remembering the good time at our country house (credit youtube, chiedina)
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Nature appreciation 101: Frank and Jocelyne finding their way to the Owarish Brook, Lovers' Lane/Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley (sight and sound: credit Richard Clayderman, youtube, supermanurugyayo) What better way to appreciate nature than through the flowers (credit Clayderman, gyorlida9, youtube) ONAP in a nutshell (credit youtube, bratschman) |
Nature appreciation 102: Find out about OWA Nature appreciation thanks to all my friends at "L'Assistance publique" hundreds of them, in particular Marie Josee Camille, Lise Dodin, Rajen Ramnauth, Joanna Emilien, Jocelyne Precieux, Jeanne Samtoy, in memoriam Denise Monty; they all loved me; I do not know why? I walked to the altar with one of you; in fact, went on to the 'Romeo and Juliet Story' of modern times (possible book, possible movie): France aka Frank (credit: youtube, luisquepa) |
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Nature appreciation and more (credit youtube, pavel1811971) |
Nature appreciation 103: Location of other ONAP sites (details, soon) |
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Nature and love and music blend (credit: Youtube, Andy Williams, The defender7) |
Nature appreciation with music MY WAY (credit youtube, clayderman and Mate85774) |
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Often nature provides the perfect setting for us, through music, to express our deepest feeling, in this case Frank's to Jocelyne (credit youtube, andre rieu, Thelodestar); nature, painting of nature, human-made beauties and love: perfect combination (credit clayderman/jung, youtube, JorgeRCPP)
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Enjoying the beauty of spring spring simphony (credit andre rieu, NEWoceanflower2008, youtube) More nature and music (credit youtube, waldo de los rios, claudiogregoriano) |
Visitors will be enticed to come and admire nature of these green areas through the four seasons.
Here is this web site, in addition to providing information about nature appreciation in general; there will be information about the different green areas forming part of ONAP along with other relevant information (historical and geographical) including maps with directions. In addition, there will be an opportunity for you, the cyber-visitors, to indulge in virtual tours.
Educators teaching courses on environmental/ecological matters may find it useful to direct their students to this web site and also to go and visit specific areas of interest. Some of these have interesting geo-morphological properties. Above all, it is an opportunity to be surprised by what nature has for us to enjoy, from the various types of trees to the variety of birds and other natural species (squirrels, deer, wild turkeys, etc) and to brooks and waterfalls.
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Professor Sheila Lintott started a very interesting debate worth pursuing.
In "Adjudicating the Debate Over Two Models of Nature Appreciation"
Sheila Lintott stated that "it seems commonplace to point out
that we aesthetically appreciate a wide variety of objects: that is,
art objects are not the only good candidates for aesthetic
appreciation. We know from experience that one can aesthetically
appreciate not only Georgia O'Keefe's White Trumpet Flower, but also
a white trumpet flower. Similarly, we can aesthetically appreciate
both a pictorial representation of the human form and that form
instantiated in certain prime specimens. We do so, moreover, without
classifying either flowers or human beings as art objects. Yet, the
paradigm of aesthetic appreciation today, in both everyday life and
in educative contexts, is the appreciation of art, which explains
why we tend to try to understand what makes aesthetic appreciation
appropriate in terms of what makes art appreciation appropriate.
This approach may not be entirely mistaken, for beginning with the
familiar is always a good plan. However, it must be done with care,
otherwise important differences between our relationships with the
art we appreciate and with the nature we appreciate may be
overlooked, thereby obscuring salient differences in the
appreciation of each." (see The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol.
38, No. 3, Fall 2004, pp.52-72 for full text).
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A related concept is that of nature conservancy; in fact there is an organization by that name quite active on the subject; to start with, you may wish to look at Nature Conservancy's work in New York as an example. |