Parked under these quite majestic windmills when passing through The Netherlands a few weeks ago. There’s something quite beautiful about semi-wild landscapes. I love windmills, I’ve written before that they sing of sci-fi utopias.
Are they perfect? No.
Do they still extract resources from the Earth? Yes.
Do I prefer them to a filthy, polluting oil refinery or a nuclear power station whose toxic waste will remain active on earth for ten-thousand years? Absolutely.
I know a lot of travellers seek out supposed epic, pristine landscapes, & of course those wild spaces are beautiful, but for me there’s also something quite magnificent in landscapes telling a different story at the intersection of humanity, technology & nature.
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