Going to Hook

Hook with Warsash Local Nature Reserve. Quite a strange mix of inland woodland, grazing pastures interspersed with tree lines, woodland and wetland habitats, leading down to a shingle shoreline. With views of industrial ship yards and tall chimney stacks. A fascinating place to visit. Plenty of space for walking and contemplating the perpetual clash of civilisation with nature.

We’re currently working on a podcast, discussing how modern mankind is like an alien to this world, constantly at war with nature, pruning, reshaping, destroying or controlling in some way or another. And how this outward lack of balance reflects on our inner lack of peace. The conflict of our inner nature verses our conditioned socialised persona.

And yet here at Hook, the two seem to coexist, and perhaps the conflict is only in the mind of the observer. The ducks don’t seem to mind the view.