Nature's exploding all over. Looking along the railway tracks from the old foot bridge it was almost as if it's wooded environs were straining to to consume them. Without regular human intervention I don't think it would take too many years before the rails were unnavigable, and only a few more until their course would disappear into thicket and jumbled shrub. I'll often wonder what the works of man would look like abandoned, and how long they'd take to be consumed by nature. It's a comfort in a way in light of our climate crisis, that it's not really the planet we're trying to save (such a human-centric perspective), it's our tenure on it, and if we fail it's us that'll be beyond saving. The planet, flora and fauna will all adapt and evolve, they'll all be just fine, different, but fine. Reassuring, really.
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