"The Sun Also Rises". Sunrise in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia
The Sun Also Rises in Katherine! Of course in my Naturalist Travels I am sometimes - how could it be otherwise for an historian of idea - overcome by Dark Contemplations about the relative worth of Nature and Culture.
Idyllic Nature, a Natural Paradise? here in Katherine where the river literally swarms with crocodiles? where sweet, horticulturalist plants are not in evidence except in people's yards? I walk in really Rough Nature and there's even rougher further 'out'. The kind of nature that has terrible floods like the one that swept away much of Katherine in the wake - literally - of Cyclone Les in 1998. But here 'culture', too, has wreaked havoc. One look on the streets - or better maybe 'roads' because this place is more of a 'township' than a town - of Katherine will show the utter devastation of the Jawogon and Dagomen native peoples due to "western" proclivities. Another look will bring back memories of the British shipping out the dregs of civilisation to this colony in thet nineteenth century..
No, I can't say I come down on Ernest Hemingway's side in his The Sun Also Rises (1926). Nature is no 'pastoral paradise'; neither has city life or 'culture' much redemption.
The hearts and measured actions of people, maybe?
Whatever... I was spellbound this morning by this magnificient Sunrise.
Look at the nature of this Sunset and you can also see the culture of modern electricity and telecommunications...
"The Sun Also Rises". Sunrise in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia
The Sun Also Rises in Katherine! Of course in my Naturalist Travels I am sometimes - how could it be otherwise for an historian of idea - overcome by Dark Contemplations about the relative worth of Nature and Culture.
Idyllic Nature, a Natural Paradise? here in Katherine where the river literally swarms with crocodiles? where sweet, horticulturalist plants are not in evidence except in people's yards? I walk in really Rough Nature and there's even rougher further 'out'. The kind of nature that has terrible floods like the one that swept away much of Katherine in the wake - literally - of Cyclone Les in 1998. But here 'culture', too, has wreaked havoc. One look on the streets - or better maybe 'roads' because this place is more of a 'township' than a town - of Katherine will show the utter devastation of the Jawogon and Dagomen native peoples due to "western" proclivities. Another look will bring back memories of the British shipping out the dregs of civilisation to this colony in thet nineteenth century..
No, I can't say I come down on Ernest Hemingway's side in his The Sun Also Rises (1926). Nature is no 'pastoral paradise'; neither has city life or 'culture' much redemption.
The hearts and measured actions of people, maybe?
Whatever... I was spellbound this morning by this magnificient Sunrise.
Look at the nature of this Sunset and you can also see the culture of modern electricity and telecommunications...