Its a jungle out there

we have had a few heavy 'bouts' of rain lately which has resulted in soaking undergrowth around my nature retreat...add to this the need to approach from different places to avoid creating too worn and visible paths and i have found myself up to my neck in thick, only just penetrable 'jungle' like undergrowth...weeds, brambles,rosebay willowherbs,saplings etc etc...it hads been slow going at times and when i finally get to my retreat i am in a soaked state with scratches and cuts and collapse onto my plantpot for a good few minutes...i was like this earlier today and whilst i was recovering i was smelling the damp undergrowth and looking about me at all the fading, yet still 'en masse' vegetation and thinking...this really is like a mini jungle environment at times...is this the real U.K.? is this what would happen without the cultivation and the buildings?...maybe it would be like this, until the trees grew back and once again forested the entire country! i got a sense of natures never ending growth..its cycles...its expansion and contraction...its 'breath' :)...in a couple of months the green will have totally turned brown and withered away...letting the winter sun through the spaces and the frosts in to do their work...if this was not so, then the foliage and weed layers would choke the ground...so i am glad of the turning seasons...in fact, i think i am looking forward now to the foliage to give up the ghost and return to autumn/winter and thus be refreshed in the new spring of next year. At the mo it is soggy and choking, starting to fade...i think iwill have a fire soon again..bring some cheer to the place:)did a bit of work while i was there, the expansion i did the other day, i cleared a bit more of that, and the place now seems way more spacious, and i have freed up a beautiful hawthorn tree, which for the whole time i have known it, has been half covered in brambles....it seems pleased....my expansion has brought different views too...standing at the far end i can see now, thru some trees the welsh mountains rising up in the distance...a good meditation spot! i may at some point make another structure, possibly to be used as a sweat lodge...this was the idea for my current structure, but this eventually will be for sleeping the odd night in...anyway, enough for now...love the nature, respect the nature, try to understand the nature....'cause we are PART of the nature:)