in Asides

Dead Bears and Pylons | The Learned Pig

In all of the stories, it’s the primal memory of wild, untamed nature beneath the veneer of modern London which haunts those who venture out onto the marshes. The extraordinary persistence of this wilderness in East London reminds us that, eventually, when the human project ends, nature will swallow up all that have achieved.

via Dead Bears and Pylons | The Learned Pig.