The Anthropology of Green: Fair Isle’s Fields and Moss

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I was asked today, "Who is the most important person I ever met?" I answered: "That mountain."

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I, the land

Now on Fair Isle, because of salt water, and clearings for sheep, there are no such things as trees. The life of wood, and how it shows growth, death, and rebirth, is just a souvenir. There is another kind of ecosystem here, and it works — a solitude, but not loneliness — and a general unwinding of the worlds we have known.

The only thing to stand guard between the solitude and me are two defiant rocky mountains in the distance, as I look out of our kitchen window. Yet these rocks rock! Love it here — in all its stark splendor. I’ve had this saying: I haven't been everywhere, but it is on my list. Well, Fair Isle is North Of Everywhere.

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