NO MORE DIMINISHING RETURNS

Some cannot live without wild things, some can. I cannot. Things like sunsets and clouds, wild things, are now taken for granted but “progress” has almost forced us to ignore them. To me, we now face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free…

For us (the minority), the chance of seeing a “V” of geese flying overhead is more important than television (chewing gum for the eyes). Such wild things, I admit, had little human “value” until mechanisation ensured each of us a good breakfast and until science showed us the drama of where they came from and how they live. In a few words, we, the minority, see a law of diminishing returns in progress – others see the reverse. However, I still hold to the view that our “bigger-and-better” society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed by its own economic health it has lost the capacity to remain healthy.

In view of what I have just outlined, I have to add that there comes a time in life when one seriously considers whether ones style of living is the right one…my answer (which has been growing over the years) is now an emphatic NO! Thus, I have set in train a series of events that will allow me to fully enjoy the (few) years allotted to me in the manner in which I deeply feel I need. More of this train of events will follow. Suffice to say that the following photographs will show you the way in which my life is turning. I have to say they are completely untouched and were taken “in the wild” and taken near my home.

I want to be able to listen to the music of the orchestra of the wild, to live harmoniously with those beings that were beings many millennia before man was man. 

I'm going back....

Until next time (and with more personal views),

Peripatetic Scribe