Hugh Nibbley's Love for God's Creation.

This is one of six episodes in our podcast series based on the book entitled,

Hugh Nibbley Observed.

In Terry B. Ball's chapter in Hugh Nibbley observed,

he describes Hugh Nibbley's love for God's creation.

A popular folk tale concerning Nibley claims that rather than give in to the political

and neighborhood pressure to keep his lawn mode, the eccentric professor simply bought a goat

and staked it out in his yard to eat the grass down.

Nibley's biographer, Boyd Peterson,

observes that while this tale is false, it does reflect Nibley's dislike for the idea of trimming

or cutting down any living thing. A dislike, Peterson suggests, that grew out of Nibley's

childhood experiences in the lush green forests of Oregon, where he witnessed their

destruction at the hands of his own grandfather, who owned the Nibbley-stoddered lumber company,

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Later Nibbley lamented, quote, after my mission, I visited a glorious redwood grove near

Santa Cruz, California.

Only there was no grove there.

The 2,000-year-old trees were all gone. Not one of them was left standing. My own grandfather

had converted them all into cash. Grandfather took something priceless and irreplaceable and gave in return

a few miles of railroad ties."

Nibbley instilled his love of nature and his children,

describing a spur of the moment outing in 1959 he wrote,

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