firebuilding

Girl Scouts learning to build a fire at Lake Andrews near Tallahassee, Florida

from Florida Memory

• Florida Memory said:

  Accompanying note: "Fire building - Girl Scouts at the Lake Andrews day camp during the last two weeks learned many camping skills, including the safe building of fires."

• LitterART said:

  WELCOME TO MY FLICKR-DREAMTIME-GROUP! DREAMTIME! * DREAMTIME * Boundary between Wilderness and Civilization " . . . But neither does the relativist fulfill these longings. He stands on the walls of the city and as he looks out into the wilderness, his eyes reflect the sadness that he does not know how to fly . . ." Beyond the city walls lay unpredictable encounters with wild things, including other humans. Hans Peter Duerr argues that for the medievals the boundary between wilderness and civilization was permeable and often-crossed, like a low fence. In the country, at least, invitations to the wild lay at every turn. Strange animals roamed there, and at night the vast panorama of the skies opened up. Even the blossoms of the yew tree under which one might fall asleep were mild hallucinogens. An afternoon's nap might turn into a trip to the Venus Mountain. But now the animals the yews and the vastness of the night are gone, and the Venusberg is the stuff only of opera. Sometimes the wild is deliberately eradicated, as for example when our civilization deliberately chopped down the ancient world's sacred groves. The wild potentials that remain are pushed behind what Duerr describes as a solid, steep prison wall. Greetings from Austria LitterART | litterart.wordpress.com

• Martina.mattucci said:

  nice photo! reminds me of the movie stand by me