The Day The Cameras Came By

Out of curiosity I viewed my nature place on Google Earth. I could see my city clearly as a passenger in a very high plane could see it..grey mainly..with little splashes of green, the curling band of the river..the countryside in the distance. I zoomed in..I could see the roads, the railways...aha! the golf course....i homed in a bit nearer...eventually I could see the green strip that was where my nature place was located..is that it?!? It made me realise just how near civilisation it was...yet civilisation seems so far away when I am there. For when I am meditating in my green space, surrounded by the circle of outward spanning nettles, brambles, rosebay willowherb, trees and of course the wood it seems I am in the midst of a remote nature...well in some sense I am, for it is not frequented, it is unknown, it is the edgelands...so near to civilisation, and yet so far! I guess the bird in the nest in the tree that is one of many along a busy road, or the ant in the ant nest in the centre strip of motorway feel similar..they are near in their way to the system and its movements, as I am in my relatively larger scale when I am hidden in my secret shrine..getting on with our nature bliss...its nice to know that even on Google earth I am hidden from the satellites as they orbit...as all they see is a strip of green and a few darker splodges of tree...one of many patches of green within and around the modern world...glad I didn't have a fire the day the cameras came by...or else my cover would have been blown:)