Another excellent Jenkinson quote from your link: "From the land's point of view, there is no difference between a sword and a ploughshare." Well. I hadn't considered it that way, but that is a real solid point.
It’s so hard to choose just one! That one you picked really hit me, too, and “they converted the land instead.” And there’s more in the full non-free version of that section (25 minutes) of the Dark Roads album, like: “Rome, a mongrel myth of ruined indigenosities” and “Do you think it’s a mark of a cultured people that they oblige their neighbors to take their god?”
I get a little obsessed but I think it's partly because he's such a good speaker. I don't always like what I hear (though that's rare), but sometimes get so lost in the voice I forget to listen to what he's saying. He posts some audio stuff under Orphan Wisdom on SoundCloud. I first heard him on this episode of Pondercast: https://www.pondercast.ca/episode/death
I love that you are working on property, "right to roam" type stuff (at least that's what it sounds like), etc. All things that are near and dear to my own thinking these days. Re: the damaged gate, in my own favorite stomping grounds at Council Grove someone decided it would be a good place to dump all the leaves they (presumably) raked up from their yard. The leaves were one thing, but half of them were still in the oversized plastic bags. Why do that? It fills me with despair that I should have to make effort to get along with whoever the person is who thinks that is acceptable, and yet, I do. It's very frustrating.
I am totally with you on that. There’s another spot I visit a lot, and right by the pull-out there is almost always shot-up bottles and stuff by bonfire remains. Last time someone had used big plastic detergent and bleach bottles set up throughout the woods for target practice and then just left them. How much of yourself do you fold under to make room for people with such (what feels like) destructive values or uncaring?
The leaves thing is a little extra weird though. Even if the city doesn’t pick them up a farmer almost always has use for them.
Right to roam, commodification of air and water, the insanity of privately owned land, all of it ...
Another excellent Jenkinson quote from your link: "From the land's point of view, there is no difference between a sword and a ploughshare." Well. I hadn't considered it that way, but that is a real solid point.
It’s so hard to choose just one! That one you picked really hit me, too, and “they converted the land instead.” And there’s more in the full non-free version of that section (25 minutes) of the Dark Roads album, like: “Rome, a mongrel myth of ruined indigenosities” and “Do you think it’s a mark of a cultured people that they oblige their neighbors to take their god?”
I have never heard of this person, but now that you've introduced him, so to speak, I find I'm very interested in what he has to say...
I get a little obsessed but I think it's partly because he's such a good speaker. I don't always like what I hear (though that's rare), but sometimes get so lost in the voice I forget to listen to what he's saying. He posts some audio stuff under Orphan Wisdom on SoundCloud. I first heard him on this episode of Pondercast: https://www.pondercast.ca/episode/death
I love that you are working on property, "right to roam" type stuff (at least that's what it sounds like), etc. All things that are near and dear to my own thinking these days. Re: the damaged gate, in my own favorite stomping grounds at Council Grove someone decided it would be a good place to dump all the leaves they (presumably) raked up from their yard. The leaves were one thing, but half of them were still in the oversized plastic bags. Why do that? It fills me with despair that I should have to make effort to get along with whoever the person is who thinks that is acceptable, and yet, I do. It's very frustrating.
I am totally with you on that. There’s another spot I visit a lot, and right by the pull-out there is almost always shot-up bottles and stuff by bonfire remains. Last time someone had used big plastic detergent and bleach bottles set up throughout the woods for target practice and then just left them. How much of yourself do you fold under to make room for people with such (what feels like) destructive values or uncaring?
The leaves thing is a little extra weird though. Even if the city doesn’t pick them up a farmer almost always has use for them.
Right to roam, commodification of air and water, the insanity of privately owned land, all of it ...