I’ve encountered many a turtle over the past five decades of walking the shoreline, wetland, swamp, and highland. They are a creature moving apart from its environment. In some instances, its environment doesn’t recognize it as an animal; instead, the environment attaches itself to the turtle’s shell, as if the turtle is part of the Earth. I would readily notice this on big snapping turtles, when I would fish the swamp areas of the Little and the Neuse River of North Carolina. At times, it was difficult to distinguish between what was a snapper and what was a moss covered stone. Of course, this little box turtle is no snapper. It is, however, part of the landscape at IndianRock.art. -Missouri State Reptile: Three-Toed Box Turtle …super chill lil’ crawler.
As a note: There are numerous reptiles currently living at IndianRock.art. They are free to roam, without impedance, as I love to observe them in their natural state. There is much that humans can learn from the observation of a turtle’s movement in the natural world.
IndianRock.art – all of nature is of God, and humans are not apart from that connection.
