How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

by Marc Hamer

It is easy to damage the quiet fragile things carelessly, to break and maim without even noticing.

Life is rarely as neat and tidy as we would like. I prefer it that way. Reason is just one of the many important ways of experiencing the world.

My memory for the names of things is not what it was: it doesn’t seem important for me to try and remember. The answer will come of its own accord, or it won’t. Words have a different existence to the things they name: they live in different places, have different lives.

The only permanent things about man are his waste. Natural things decay. There is a bittersweet state of existence that all natural things go through, a stage when they stop being what they were and start being something else. I think I am at that point.