Great how the NAYCHER thread is already opening out into diversities. I
like John Kinsella's visceral fear-and-loathing-in-the-dirt approach, a
timely mudwrestling against over-cerebral response, and I like Peter's
careful, ethical tending of the open channel too. Please, Mummy, can I
have them both? I mean, it seems to me that both are methods of attention,
of learning in a broad sense, of engagement without ownership. But I just
don't know what to do with that romantic idealisation of nature thing,
it's as remote from anything I understand as phlogiston.
Jonathan Williams quotes - I can't remember who from - to the effect of:
"people speak of a return to nature. I wonder where they could have
been..." I don't read this as nature-is-everywhere so much as you're-
always-amongst-it. It relates back to the earlier bit, responsibility =
keeping the ability to respond.
RC
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