Approach him across open ground with a steady unfaltering movement. Let your shape grow in size but do not alter its outline. Never hide yourself unless concealment is complete. Be alone. Shun the furtive oddity of man, cringe from the hostile eyes of farms. Learn to fear. To share fear is the greatest bond of all. The hunter must become the thing he hunts.

J.A. Baker

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Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

J.A. Baker


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Binoculars, and a hawk-like vigilance, reduce the disadvantage of myopic human vision.

J.A. Baker

Tags: birdwatching



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No pain, no death, is more terrible to a wild creature than its fear of man.

J.A. Baker


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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.

J.A. Baker

Tags: sense-of-place



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Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

J.A. Baker

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Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

J.A. Baker

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