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Rhythms of the Natural World

November 13, 2009 16:09 in Australian Wilderness by john ::

Sir David Attenborough, speaking on Australia's ABC TV 7.30 Report program said:

"Oh there's no doubt that we are becoming increasingly divorced from the natural world. There are lots of people who spend their lives in cities and never see a wild thing unless it's a pigeon - or maybe a rat.

So you lose touch with the rhythms of the natural world. You lose touch with the realities of a natural world. I don't want to get too pretentious, but you lose touch with both life and death with both how life is created and how death is inevitable

......and those of us who are sitting in towns - and the United Nations say there's more than 50 per cent of the world's population urbanised now - we tend to lose sight of those things, and perhaps brush things under the carpet that we shouldn't

.......but certainly in the time now when the world's wildlife and the natural world is under such pressure, it will disappear unless we care for it. And if it disappears, humanity will be damaged very substantially."

At Nature-Bound, we wonder if two generations of Australians have now lost touch with the call of the wild as studies in the Canadian National Parks, have apparently shown. And yet we live in one of the most unique countries in the world, much of which by world standards, is still wilderness.

Why must it be that the younger generation find all their adventure in a Play Station rather than stumbling over a log in the bush and experience getting a little dirty, like their fathers did?

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