San Clemente Island looks about as inviting as a US Navy bombing range, which it is! Although far south, not far north of the ocean frontier with Mexico, it is arguably one of the Channel Islands. The terrain is dry and seems lifeless except for a few beacons and benchmarks here and there. No doubt if we were allowed to land, we'd see a lot of plants and animals thriving, protected from human interference by the unexploded ordinance around them. It's a pradoxical rule: nature does best in places humans have made uninhabitable. No doubt most creatures outside our own species would rejoice if we blasted ourselves off the planet: the start of a time they might consider a "nuclear summer".
i wonder how much other species really care about us? the budgies are indifferent to my existence most of the time, unless i directly jump "on their cloud". lk
Posted by: gwinnk | November 20, 2006 at 09:00 AM
i just saw "letters from iwo jima". the landscape reminded me of this picture. kat
Posted by: kat | January 30, 2007 at 06:48 AM