White nothe

Today's Purbeck perambulation was from Daggers Gate to White Nothe and back. The path out following the contours of the cliffs and hills, whilst the return path followed the crest of the hills. It's an open landscape, close to nature and close to the elements, we were lucky today as the elements were kind. It's a landscape all about sweeping shapes and grand views, it's a place that moves you, and in many ways depending on the elements mood. Today's was mood sublime serenity. I laid on the rough grassy hillside which sweeps steeply towards the cliffs, looking out to sea, and it dawned on me that all I could hear was the sounds of the insects in the grass. It was as if all the channels of the world were faded down, except the grasshoppers and small buzzy things.  The unusual breadth and depth of the quiet was noticeable by its rarity in modernity, and as I say quite sublime.