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Place & Time

The writers from whom Dark Mountain has taken inspiration are grounded in a sense of place and time. In the deep time of geology and myth, in the rooted relation to place of a tree or the navigational feel for place of a migrant bird.

Steering by the specific, the peculiar character of each season and each stretch of land, we may be less tempted to offer once-and-for-all answers, contenting ourselves with those which will serve for here and for now.

Being pioneers

Andrea Hejlskov
3rd January, 2014
Sixty percent! They went on to be pioneers in the land of milk and honey,...
Place & Time

The Zenith

Richard Adrian Reese
6th November, 2013
In The Travels, Marco Polo (1254–1326 AD) wrote, ‘There are wild cattle in that country [almost]...
Place & Time

Sandstone

Ann Lingard
25th June, 2013
  Despite the vegetation, there are plenty of clues, and we scramble around on the...
Place & Time

Water, Water Everywhere

Ian Hill
17th August, 2012
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having...
Place & Time

Smock Frocks and Curlews

Wolfbird
17th June, 2012
I’d be friendly and polite, but secretly, these occasional people appeared like aliens to me....
Place & Time

Lions After Slumber

Ian Hill
3rd April, 2012
From this pulpit, in 1657, it is said that George Fox preached to an assembled...
Place & Time

The Narrow Orbit of Our Belonging

Ian Hill
3rd February, 2012
For what seems like some years now, he has taken to wandering the lanes around...
Place & Time

In Patagonia: Part 1

Paul Kingsnorth
17th December, 2011
As I mentioned a few posts back, I have been out of the country for...
JourneysPlace & Time

The Bleak Midwinter

Dougald Hine
24th December, 2010
  What is unnatural, though, is how our modern midwinter customs seem calculated to make...
Place & Time

Deep Waters: Lines of Defence (II): The Invisible Enemy

Benjamin Morris
2nd November, 2010
We’ve come this year to celebrate, belatedly, another birthday—my aunt’s—but had we known what awaited...
Place & Time

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