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That way if I caught the same turtle again I
would know. One female turtle came to the
front of our house to lay eyes about five
years in a row! She most likely would have
come back more if the wilderness wan't
turning into suburbia as fast as it was in
our neighborhood.
Turtle always seem to have a strange calmness
to them. Looking into a turtle's eyes is like
looking at a bowl of ancient wisedom and
neverending patience. Many a time have I or
my husband pulled over the car to rescue a
turtle trying to cross a busy road. (My
husband had a rather unnerving experience a
couple weeks ago when he was trying to help a
family of turtles cross a road. Right as he
was about to ge the last one, a car speed by
and, well, let's say my husband was more than
a little upset!) But a turtle never seems to
mind having to risk it's own life to get to a
nearby swamp. It is spurred on by the very march of life itself. I think todays fast driving, cell phone using, always in a hurry to get somewhere else society could learn an important lesson from these timid creatures!
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