"Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear"
"a Boy I loved the sun"
--William Wordsworth, Prelude Book 1
"While the child was dreaming in solitude, he experienced a limitless existence. His reverie was not merely an escape. It was a reverie of flight." Gaston Bachelard, The Alchemy of Imagination
The gallery of an inspired artist. Charismatic megafauna have their own dignity, and as he says, the inspiring romantic or mythic images resound deep in the emotional consciousness. This is not merely simpering wildlife presented for a WWF calendar, but a visionary on the boundary, at the crux of nature- culture interacting and speaking in our lives through his art.
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