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The outdoors provides such a convenient obsession for homo sapiens. Its mystery, with unexplainable crags, valleys, rivers and summits that science only partially explains, but also its comfort - having been the playground, laboratory and workplace for us for thousands of years.
Unfortunately, early homo sapiens had no notebook. Instead they wrote down their exploits, tricks and histories on more familiar materials such as rock. Over time, whether rock, papyrus, wood, paper and now a blog - humans have always had a place to document their obsessions.
With this apt introduction, welcome to my obsession. The Outdoors.
Early man had to remember where the more favorable streams were, the more fruitful trees (pardon the pun), the most malleable rock, the best places to find food. Over time, this changed. Pliny engaged in writing detailed and lengthly volumes on the origins of the natural world. In the Pacific, Charles Darwin scribbled the beginning of the Theory of Evolution.
Where would all these people be if they did'nt have a notebook, journal, a handy rock, or papyrus.
This is my notebook, albeit virtual, yet the experiences from which these observation are drawn are more than tangible. I intend to document what I have learnt from the outdoors, so as to continue this trend of taking experience from the outdoors, rather than 'taking only photos...leaving only footprints'.
Please read this blog, and feel free to comment on any issue.
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