ONE’S COMPANY
Oct 18, 2018
4 minutes
WORDS_ ROSS BROWNSCOMBE
“ ALONE, YOU WILL FIND THE LIGHT IS SOMEHOW CLEANER AND THE AIR SOFTER.”
“ALL by yourself?” the little man at the dam had said. It is a nasty question to answer, the way he put it. It is the question of gregarious, colonial man, and it contains outrage, and it means: What the hell’s the matter with you? Few people are willing to believe that a piece of country, hunted and fished and roamed over, felt and remembered, can be company enough.” – John Graves
Sometimes we go to wild places too burdened with determination and purpose. Eyes fixed, mind set, plan immutable, we march along the track or float down the river
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