In many films, you see people drive across the expanse of America or elsewhere. I've seen one yesterday, "The Private Life of Pippa Lee ' where Rebecca Miller and Keanu Reeves through a simulated savannah Wild West with a characteristic red sun. And each time, every movie, I wonder when we will finally see someone pounding in the middle of the stage and running out because he saw a beautiful plant on the side of the road. It is the dream of all gardeners to stop virtually anywhere because a grass that you noticed a few moments before you plot and hey, this is one that is right there on the side and illico you stop for a closer look. It is a plant that you have ever, normal, you're away from home and there is nobody on this desert highway and it's not as if you geniez traffic, you're alone and nobody is bitching in the car because it's the tenth time you make the shot in one hour.
You stop the engine and you exit the car, look towards the place where you saw this Pante and you go down the ditch to enter the desert. The plant is there, in perfect health is one of thousands of species that grow everywhere. She caught your eye and you are now at 50 cm, head Leaning for a closer look. A big sigh of wonder. You kneel in the dust and grass clippings for obserser that surrounds the base and touch the ground to feel how the roots. If there are flowers, you feel them just in case, if there pretty leaves, you touch them, gently. No, you do not immediately iPhone to take a picture and no, you tweet even less "I found a Chionochloa rubra in his natural element in New Zealand and there are plenty on the hill "(140 characters) . You Rejoice rather because it is still daylight and you have time. In fact, you came to this corner of the world for that.
Behind the plant, there is everything else, this expanse of nature that unfolds and you look then at 360 °, there is no noise, light wind on the leaves, barely, and finally the air which is not static, and you're the only stop on this road. That version of gardening "Stop the world, I want to get off! "I want to get off the car right away to see this plant! In addition, there are seeds everywhere and as you are a passionate nerd crazy, you have prepared small bags to take as many as you want.
This kind of descent car can last for hours because there are still 20 meters to a new plant or a subspecies or even another one you've already seen but that is really healthy, beautiful and strong. They are completely wild plants, most are completely unknown to you you look at the earth to find out what it is, if there is a lot of sand or pebbles. Soon the car is very far and it takes the arrival of a natural phenomenon such as rain or at night to make you turn around at cons heart, but happy. Good hunting.
With all these films that we showed inside U.S. and vast landscapes traversed by the actors on horseback or by car, there's not one or a character would have stopped to pick flowers. I heard that there are laws to prohibit vehicles stopping on the lower side and my friend Robert told me that when he crossed a famous park this summer, the American police was very much and they were not kidding with the idea of penetrating and thus potentially damaging the wilderness. I hope this is not the case everywhere. In these road movies, we always wondered what would happened if Thelma and Louise had slowed after the first mile in a range of flowers as found in the Namaqualand a moment of spring. The nearest course is "Into the Wild" where E milie Hirsch fate of the road to really penetrate into the unknown, but anyone who knows already knew it would end very quickly on a toxic plant (there are many) so we too loved this part of the film. After all, it is a plant that kills the main character. These
road movies do not show the actors into the prairie, savanna or the desert because the modern printing, for all those born in the city and not at the farm, is that nature is dangerous - and it is. But not so afraid to stop in three hours Garrigue to look closely at plants beautiful and quirky living in Marseille Corbières, for example. As soon as these films show people that stop somewhere, it gets scary movie like "The Hills Have Eyes" (I love the movie, it does not). The underlying idea is that you drive in one go through such extensive uninhabited and especially do not stop in nature. If you leave the car, you're already dead.
It has often been said that the players' Blair Witch Project "have no idea what this really are not the beavers juniors. Even if the place is haunted, everyone should know that if we find a river, as is the case in the movie, just follow the stream as it always leads somewhere, even if it takes days. These kids do not know where are the stars, they all grew up in a suburban environment and it now gives friends who come from both home and who are not gone for 20 years in the forest (véridique!) and, therefore, walk casually stroking the hand of the head of nettles Nettles! If there is a plant that everyone should know by heart, were nettles.
When I travel somewhere, I really need to leave the hotel or the place where I am to see the plants growing at the roadside or in vacant lots that are not far . I already do that on the beach watching the stones. That's why I have this problem more and more with cities is that there nothing to see on this side. My dream is to spend 15 days in a cabin of a large ranch where it takes several hours to get there by horse or car and stay there, beside a small river, criss-cross the entire space around the cabin watching what grows.
I have a friend who told me it would be a good idea to make the road between Dallas and Marfa, Texas, all this to stop all gas stations on the way to watch people and especially men. Finally in Donal Judd and James Dean . I found this great idea mainly because I I knew the opportunity to stop several times on the roadside. There are thousands of places like this around the world and even in France and I know I will not do, or much more, because time passes quickly and there are dreams more urgent to do before it does is too late. These are things to do alone or with someone who is really passionate by nature, and there are less and less. OK, there are more and more people who garden, and it's great. But modern life has changed the very identity of nature. Events like Race Rum are heresies For me, a sort of conspiracy in the industry of the sea, which always has a frenzy of economic domination of the oceans. I do not know why I say that here, I hate this stuff Britons.
Now, millions of people worldwide are hiking or horseback and all that is gained immense philosophy represented by no one except, OK, photography. I do not know if there is the equivalent of a John Muir , but there must be. In any case, next time you take the car, at least try to look at what grows on the roadside (no accident anyway). It's amazing what one finds there. We could do a whole garden with only these plants. This is the basis of any botanical.
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