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#ScenicSaturday 10th May 2025
Goodrich. Old Oak.
I post these pictures of the natural beauty of our world to show how unique and irreplaceable it is. I’m simply presenting scenes I hope will please, and maybe inform, readers here.
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This one depicts an ancient oak tree standing by the side of the track that leads to Goodrich Castle. This magnificent specimen will be home to innumerable lifeforms, as oaks are a great habitat for many different species of insects, birds, and even plant life. The ploughed field stands awaiting the sowing of a new crop, probably some grain or other to feed us hungry humans.
It’s so easy for us to take for granted the role the natural world plays daily in our lives, but we do so at our eventual peril. Climate change is a real and present threat that just might result in our complete demise as a species. The world, of course, will continue without us as it did for the 4.5 billion years before we evolved. In astronomical terms, we are incredibly transient, but we manage to behave as though the universe was actually created for us, and as if we will always be present. The Universe doesn’t give a damn about us. We are but dust, ephemeral and insignificant in the wider picture, unless, of course, we begin to understand our…
