Ode to our wastelands
Apr 28, 2021
3 minutes
Mary Colwell
THE American naturalist and author Robert Pyle’s book describes the loss of his childhood playground, a disused section of the Highline Canal in Colorado. It was an accidental wilderness, forgotten by the world until the pressure to develop meant any land was worth turning into buildings. Over the decades, Dr Pyle watched in dismay as towns and industry claimed the ‘wasteland’ he so loved. One day, as excavators moved in, a fox shot from cover. ‘We watch, entranced,
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