When Blake wrote about; “seeing the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower”, he could have had no better model than here, for the old bones of this landscape are truly miniature worlds in themselves.
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Getting in close the giant boulders reveal niches within niches and layer upon layer of connected life.
Here in the rocks, hundreds of limpid temporary pools have formed after the rains and they are already populated with their own aquatic ecology; insect larvae and tiny crustaceans swim within the boundaries of this, their own universe.
Lower down these rocks, gardens of herbs have sprung up in hollows, where only dry bare rock and sand could be found four weeks ago.
In another natural crevice lie the bones of one of the mountains herbivores, perhaps laid here by a child or as an offering to the spirits of this place.
Worlds lie within worlds, each a part of the other, spiralling outwards and inwards in the never ending dance of life.
This is the real world wide web.
Photo: A boulder filled with life in Saladaviciosa. Courtesy of the author.