A beautiful planet
Columns: Green Living
A beautiful planet
In a guest reappearance as a columnist for our milestone 200th issue, Bob Brown recounts some of his recent travels and, in doing so, reminds us of the simple beauties that make our planet worth fighting for.
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The 200 beautiful Wild covers say it all: We live on a magnificent, lively planet. And, as Wild's Green Pages have always said, we owe it our support and action.
A recent dawn stroll along Waratah Beach, west of Wilsons Promontory, gave me that soul-nurturing experience that nature alone offers human beings. Three hooded plovers pecked morsels from the sand pools left by the receding waves, and flocks of gulls flew west over the wave line, headed to whatever feeding grounds would make their day. The sky was a glowing pastiche of glorious pastels.
On that stroll, my mind drifted further south to the Tasman Peninsula, where photographer Nick Green may well have been in the same sea at the same time, capturing the great rollers from the south pounding on some of the world's highest sheer sea cliffs, as seen in his forthcoming book of black-and-whites called Dark Seas.