
In poets corner after seeing doctor for checkup – 2 weeks since operation, and almost…human again.
In poets corner after seeing doctor for checkup – 2 weeks since operation, and almost…human again.
Aaaaaaaah
“Conservative” political parties in western countries all share ten fundamental features.
… is prologue.
My book concerning fire in the Australian environment, extinction of the megafauna, and Indigenous interaction with the environment in general (and in total opposition to the works of Flannery, Pascoe and Gammage, among others), is available online. https://www.routledge.com/The-Pure-State-of-Nature-Sacred-cows-destructive-myths-and-the-environment/Horton/p/book/9781865081076
All my individual publications in this field (and others) are available free online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Horton9
Also many of my older essays are still available here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/david-horton/28320
“Cultural
burning” is to
ecology as
creationism
is to
evolution
There was a time
I could sit in
the town square at
midday and see,
passing by, my
contemporaries,
going about
their lives, knowing
they, we, were the
generation
creating the
world around us.
These days I see
no one I know
and the world has
moved on to
those of a new
generation,
leaving us, me, as
ghostly figures,
not signifying,
tell tale idiots,
watching from sidelines.
With your advancing age the decades flash by, faster and faster, like the clickety-clack of the wheels of a tumbril on the cobblestones, as the driver whips the horses into a gallop, anxious to reach Place du Trône-Renversé before night falls.
Layers of sandstone and shale and slate form my bedrock.