Trapper's Ethics
by Tim Richards
Title
Trapper's Ethics
Artist
Tim Richards
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Mixed Media
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A reflection on his role in life from the legendary Grey Owl, an Englishman who wholly adopted the lifestyle of the American Indian in Canada. The aspen trees are found in the Santa Fe National Forest near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Original photo taken in 2011. In this version the text has been distressed.
"Yet the scene around me had its influence, and a guilty feeling possessed me as I realized that of all present in that place of peace and clean content, I was the only profane thing, an ogre lurking to destroy. The half-grown ferns and evergreen sedge grasses through which the early breeze whispered, would, if I had my way, soon be smeared with the blood of some animal, who was viewing, perhaps with feelings akin to my own, the dawning of another day; to be is last.
Strange thoughts, maybe, coming from a trapper, one whose trade is to kill; but be it known to you that he who lives much alone within the portals of the temple of Nature learns to think, and deeply, of things which seldom come within the scope of ordinary life. Much Killing brings ine time, no longer triumph, but a revulsion of feeling."--Grey Owl
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