NationStates Jolt Archive

Assume you are going to be some sort of hermit or nomad type of person, which biome where would you like to live out your musings on life? ;)

I would pick temperate forest. I fell most at home in a forest and fine the cliamte pleasant. I've also grown up in an area that was temperate forest at one point.

Poll ahoy...

Hmmm, in a deep forest, away from humans and near mother nature (and other hot elves). 'Tis the elf in me. :)
That sums it up...

Hmmm, in a deep forest, away from humans and near mother nature (and other hot elves). 'Tis the elf in me. :)

Temperate forest. Like where I'm living now. :)

a nice tropical Island. large enough to have a fresh water river/lake, light woods, varied flora and fauna and a mountain complete with cave.

West Coast Marine.

Grasslands, preferably a hot African savannah. I like hot weather quite a bit, and the biodiversity of the savannah is pretty cool...plenty of game and forage if I'm into the hermit lifestyle.

The ocean. I live on the ocean right now, my community is on an island, and i grew up here. It would be weird for me not to live by the sea.

Grasslands, preferably a hot African savannah. I like hot weather quite a bit, and the biodiversity of the savannah is pretty cool...plenty of game and forage if I'm into the hermit lifestyle.
Supposedly, humans like Savannah the most and that is why we like lawns so much. Personally, I'd put trees in my front yard rather then grass...

Supposedly, humans like Savannah the most and that is why we like lawns so much. Personally, I'd put trees in my front yard rather then grass...

That's really interesting...personally, I prefer a wide open lawn surrounded by other open ones with only a few trees. Kind of a suburban savannah, I guess...

I could definitely see the evolutionary connection between modern landscaping preference and the savannah, since we're trying to recreate the place we came from.

Well, from a Finnish Finn living in Finland - the country of Thousand Lakes and vast conifereous forests - this is perhaps something rather weird to hear, but I did indeed vote for the Grasslands.
Not that I didn't love our trees... but the coolest "biome" I can think of is the Englandish/Mongolian type of a landscape, with vast steppes islanded (a new word?) by small oak woods and with small rivers running through all around it.

Alone on an island... plenty of fruits and veggies... just me and my mate... long sandy beaches... hawt sun and cool ocean... :)

Temperate forest. Like where I'm living now. :)


i live on the beach most of the year,but i have a place in the mountains(pa.) that i also spend time in,forced to choose?

i'd go with the mountains,the smell of the trees and earth along with the heavy snow is intoxicating to me.
i love the change of seasons,and it it seems more pronounced in the mountains,swim in the summer,walk quitly thru muted woods in the snow in the winter..i love it.

maybe since i am at the shore so much,i am use to the scent of it(i do remember when i first came down how you could smell the ocean when you were about 10 miles away)
but the winter is unpleasant here at least,just bitter wind and very little snow.

i'll take mountainous forest anyday.

Why is rainforest on the poll twice? :confused:

The mountains. Cold. Desolate. And all the snowboarding I want (I'd be a hermit with a snowmobile)!

Why is rainforest on the poll twice? :confused:
Oh shit...

Oh shit...

:p

Get me out of the desert! It use to be fun, but now it isn't!

Central-Florida-like and forested (but not the Everglades) for me. Not wet enough to be called a "rainforest," but not dry either. And it's too warm to be called "temperate."

I love the looks of the temperate forest, but that winter stuff wrecks the experience. So, if I had to stay in one place all year, I'd definitely want somewhere with no real winter (freezing weather)!

Oh shit...
*shrugs*

*votes first option of rainforest*

Put me in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, baby. :p

*shrugs*

*votes first option of rainforest*

Put me in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, baby. :p
*three minutes pass*

Ladamesansmerci-"GET ME THE HELL OUT OF THIS RAINFOREST"

*three minutes pass*

Ladamesansmerci-"GET ME THE HELL OUT OF THIS RAINFOREST"
nah, in five years, an expedition will be send and they will find The Lady happily poking nature with sticks. :D

Cool, wet grasslands, like in scotland or new england.

*three minutes pass*

Ladamesansmerci-"GET ME THE HELL OUT OF THIS RAINFOREST"
Pfft. You have obviously not felt the full force of my hippie-ness yet. :p

Supposedly, humans like Savannah the most and that is why we like lawns so much. Personally, I'd put trees in my front yard rather then grass...
I'd rather have grass that's grown to about two feet, and several shortish (15ft or so) young trees around. And a few big ones for variety. Many more trees than the pictures of savannah I've seen.

And I usually DO, at least until I think the township is going to interfere in it.

I don't know why, but I just feel much more "at home" when stuff is a bit wild. The best is when it gets so I'm the only one who can see the way in. At least, unless I'm trying to get something delivered.

If it wasn't for the wretched winters, the best thing for me would be to just move about 20 or 30 miles out of town where nobody is around to care what other peoples' "lawns" look like (or whether said lawns exist at all).

nah, in five years, an expedition will be send and they will find The Lady happily poking nature with sticks. :D
HAHAH! That actually made me laugh out loud. *hands cyber cookie*

There's a more accurate prediction of the future. It's a good thing I'm not in Soviet Russia then. :p

Pfft. You have obviously not felt the full force of my hippie-ness yet. :p
You obviously haven't felt the full force of however many billions of annoying and dangerous insects there are in the tropics. :rolleyes:

You obviously haven't felt the full force of however many billions of annoying and dangerous insects there are in the tropics. :rolleyes:
I'm not scared of insects. Besides, I'll keep in mind to pack lots of insect repellents just in case. :p

I plan on buying a huge yacht (maybe a surplus Nimitz...we'll see) and living on my own travelling from ocean to ocean.

I'm not scared of insects. Besides, I'll keep in mind to pack lots of insect repellents just in case. :p
Some kinda hippie you are, using bugspray. :rolleyes:

Some kinda hippie you are, using bugspray. :rolleyes:
:eek:

you insult my hippie-ness? I attack you with flowers! :p

btw, congrats on the 500 posts.

:eek:

you insult my hippie-ness? I attack you with flowers! :p

btw, congrats on the 500 posts.
Thanks. :)

I'm not scared of insects. Besides, I'll keep in mind to pack lots of insect repellents just in case. :p
That's not effective. I've long ago concluded, through first-hand experience, that the bugs in the tropics are very poorly educated. They seem completely oblivious to the fact that bug repellents are supposed to keep them away.

The only effective insect repellant down there is a better target. You have to bring someone who spends less time outdoors than you do. ;)

That's not effective. I've long ago concluded, through first-hand experience, that the bugs in the tropics are very poorly educated. They seem completely oblivious to the fact that bug repellents are supposed to keep them away.

The only effective insect repellant down there is a better target. You have to bring someone who spends less time outdoors than you do. ;)
Hmm...I think I have just the person.

*finds the nearest computer geek and drags him along into the Amazon*

there. :D

Hippies unite!!!

STROLL NEKKID THROUGH THE LUSH GREEN TEMPERATE FORESTS! THEY ARE OURS!

Hippies unite!!!

STROLL NEKKID THROUGH THE LUSH GREEN TEMPERATE FORESTS! THEY ARE OURS!
Right on, man!

*turns on Sublime and takes out a joint*

want some?

*finds the nearest computer geek and drags him along into the Amazon*

there. :D

Well, you don't want the better target to die in the Amazon...:p

Desert or grassland, as long as I had a constant atmospheric playlist of Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar's "Passages". I might do well as a forest sage though, but ice would depress me too much so the tundra is out. Mountains are appealing, in a B.C. comics Guru sort of way.

Arctic tundra and mountain areas:

Cold weather
Observation of wildlife

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrfalcon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:USAF_falcon.jpg



..or Alpine/Alpine-like mountain ranges.

Cold weather
Mountain thunderstorms are awesome
Observation of wildlife

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Black_Bear



...or the forests/rainforests of Central and South America

Observation of wildlife

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_parrot
(While I have absolutely no problem with keeping birds as pets, whenever I see one in a cage, I reflect on how I would prefer to see one flying free in its natural habitat. In fact, there are large groups of parrots [the descendents of released pets] in a nearby town that roam around eating from fruit trees in people's backyards. Like clockwork, an otherwise quiet yard suddenly becomes an aviary filled with birds on the ground, in the trees, hanging upside down from power lines and generally raising a riot. :D )

Marine west coast or Mediterranean climate, please.

I've spent far too much time in Humid Subtropical and Hot Summer Continental climates.

I'd prefer a mountainous forest in the sub-tropics...