Highways can be a difficult thing for wildlife to navigate. In this case, the snapping turtle was trying to cross the highway and cars were driving over it but fortunately not hitting it with their tires. I drove past and my conscious kicked in and I thought, "This turtle will never make it to the other side". Turned around and by the time I got back someone else stopped. I picked it up and brought it to the river as it was trying to bite me. Put him back in the water. Not sure if he appreciated but I still have my fingers so I'm happy. We must protect our environment and learn to live with nature as much as possible.
A Boundless Moment by Robert Frost He halted in the wind, and — what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost? He stood there bringing March against his thought, And yet too ready to believe the most. "Oh, that's the Paradise-in-bloom," I said; And truly it was fair enough for flowers had we but in us to assume in march Such white luxuriance of May for ours. We stood a moment so in a strange world, Myself as one his own pretense deceives; And then I said the truth (and we moved on). A young beech clinging to its last year's leaves. The poem is one of seasons changing and the cycle of life. Each May the bloom comes out and brings life to the death of winter. The poem is about a single moment when the characters see that life has changed. The layers of meaning can be deep but on the surface it appears Robert Frost is discussing nature and its cyclical momentum. Everything in nature moves through patterns. The poem indicates that
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