Everything Is Wasted
Back to the future WHW, once more my friends…
And back to the clearances I spoke about yesterday. It wasn’t just people. Scotland was once covered with trees. And not those non-native Sitka Spruce deserts. It was very different then. Native Caledonian conifers and wild oaks, hazels, rowans, beech and birch were a large part of an immensely rich landscape.
Attempts are being made (where mass land ownership by wealthy absent owners allows) to restore some of that previous heritage.
But still.
Today we’re walking through the modern day version of Scotland on our way past Kinlochleven. It’s got an epic beauty, no doubt. Yet a time traveller, like myself, but from 300 years ago, would think, looking around at this present day “classic” highland scenery, that Everything Is Wasted.