Wild Being from the Heart of Nature
Posted in Articles on Jan 24th, 2004
First published in The Great Outdoors Magazine, Jan. 2004. I am floating on the surface of a warm tropical sea. The burning sun beating down on the skin of my back and shoulders, my face submerged in the tepid rolling waves, mask and snorkel on.
Posted in Articles on Jan 1st, 2004
National Parks are a paradox. Men (usual men) take marker pens and scribe boundaries onto maps. On one side of the boundary the landscape is sacred, to be preserved for ‘future generations’. On the other side, it’s business as usual.
Posted in Articles on Dec 1st, 2003
Different does not mean inferior. Non-human does not mean further from the divine. The unity of wild nature will always, ultimately, prevail.
Posted in Articles on Nov 1st, 2003
The main problem, with the ‘environmental’ problem, is that it’s so energy-sappingly depressing. All those mind-numbing statistics about species extinction, escalating Parts Per Million of atmospheric carbon, another landscape racked by deforestation. A read through the “Jo’berg memo” for example, published to coincide with the Rio plus 10 Earth Summit in Johannesburg last year, is [...]
Posted in Articles on Oct 1st, 2003
A 13th Century map shows the whole world radiating out from Jerusalem. The holy city of the Judeo-Christian faith positioned dead-centre… the axis of the known universe.