A Vanishing World
"Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.."
- Roger Scruton, Beauty
"If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was and what it might yet become."
- Harvey Broome (Co-founder of The Wilderness Society)
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A Vanishing World
About the Music
As I was noodling with a wah wah guitar patch on my Casio, I thought it might sound cool with a didgeridoo. I found a couple of loops I had made a couple of years back from a wonderful Didgeridoo Duet by the great Adèle & Zalem and soon enough—by adding Native American Flutes—a tune was born!
Yes, the Native American Flute is not associated the Australian aboriginal culture but nevertheless its a intriguing combination...
About the Photos
The photos in the video are primarily from the Kimberley area in Australia with a few exceptions such as Ayers Rock/Uluru.
For quite some time I have been fascinated with the Kimberley region. Its an ancient landscape covering hundreds of thousands of square miles and is considered one of the world's last wilderness frontiers. Three times larger than all of England with a population of less than 40,000, the Kimberley is one of the world's most precious wilderness regions. The region has an immense and complex landscape that encompasses spectacular gorges, waterfalls and cave systems, pockets of lush rainforest and an astonishing variety of wildlife.
The west Kimberley has an Aboriginal history dating back at least 40,000 years and today more than 30 Aboriginal tribes remain in the Kimberley region, each with its own language and many with unique cultural practices.
Harvey Broome (1902–1968) was an American lawyer, writer and conservationist. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Broome was a founding member of The Wilderness Society, for which he served as president from 1957 until his death in 1968, and played a key role in the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Harvey Broome