Spring is here, canoeing wriggles veiled, its output approach, down the Scarpe to the confluence border. I received a phone call, the balloon is out, ready to take the air, I have to be ready ....
In southern France to Crest, a living room where I was onvité, also called Gilles Clement. He found a name for what I wanted: a third landscape. Finally I found what I think looks behind the name, pretty: the "third LANDSCAPE.
"When I approached to seek diversity in these areas (territories managed forest or farm) does not exist. It is also in places which are not addressed: roadsides, the neglected pieces of wastelands, moors and bogs, where it is difficult to use the land with machines. It is this combination I call third landscape, all valuable if one thinks of what he represents as a heritage of genetic diversity.
I do not know if the person is biologically programmed and I do not think so.
I think that life invented, really, and it is the very meaning of evolution. "
Gilles Clement, in" Still Life "(available edition of the blade)
Management by définiton, manages.
And so chooses.
Who says Select.
Tell You.
Who said Choice, said "Diversity reduced.
In the court, the few flowers that accompany the breakup of forsythia, I pace my landscape. I own seasons markers, visible from my house. Urban. Mineral. Lilac happens. The heavy rain of recent days may destroy the fragile flowers of Magnolia, just hatched.
No tit is coming to eat the fat they left.
My yard is too deep in the valley of bricks.
