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Source: Ted 1xbet online sports betting , 785-532-1408, tcable@k-state.edu
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News release prepared by: Katie Mayes, 785-532-6415, kmayes@k-state.edu
Friday, Jan. 30, 2009
K-STATE PROFESSOR USES BIRDING TO GET 1xbet online sports betting TO SLOW DOWN AND TAKE IN THEIR NATURAL SURROUNDINGS
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No need, according to Kansas State University's Ted 1xbet online sports betting . All you need to do is look out the window.
&1xbet online sports betting ;People are surrounded by beauty; they just need to stop and take in what I call mundane miracles -- things we take for granted,&1xbet online sports betting ; Cable said. &1xbet online sports betting ;By looking at a leaf or bird more closely they become pretty amazing things.&1xbet online sports betting ;
From his office in K-State's Throckmorton Hall, 1xbet online sports betting says he can see a variety of birds, including catbirds and thrashers. Opportunities abound elsewhere on campus, too, he said. Campus lawns, trees and creeks, even the under-hangings of several campus buildings and other unsuspecting places can be fruitful for birdwatchers.
&1xbet online sports betting ;Birds are conspicuous. They're elegant and colorful … they represent what nature is all about,&1xbet online sports betting ; Cable said.
As a professor of natural resource management and a conservationist, Cable helps 1xbet online sports betting interpret and appreciate nature. Introducing folks to birding is just one way to do that, he said.
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&1xbet online sports betting ;My goal is to try to get people to see beauty in nature and to see beauty in the things around them,&1xbet online sports betting ; Cable said. &1xbet online sports betting ;One way to do that is through birding education.&1xbet online sports betting ;
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&1xbet online sports betting ;I don't want to turn people into nature nuts, but by exposing people to the beauty of birds -- an animated, ubiquitous manifestation of nature's beauty -- and by helping them find personal meaning in nature through interpretation, I hope to get people to fall in love with birds and nature in general,&1xbet online sports betting ; Cable said.
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&1xbet online sports betting ;The purpose of interpreting nature for people is not to make every person we come in contact with a naturalist, but rather, to make the people we come in contact with happier people,&1xbet online sports betting ; Cable said.
More often than not, Cable said it’s a matter of getting 1xbet online sports betting to slow down and take in their surroundings. It's difficult task, he said, admitting that even he has trouble getting out of his office and away from it all.
That's why he keeps a set of binoculars sitting just below his office window.
