Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia, in the indigenous world, Alaska in particular, and in back country farm and ranch country, is a higher sense of etiquette, and more respectful manners. Urban middle class cosmopolitan world peoples of all races have become speedy and rude. This is a pretty big generalization though.

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.