windthread

Savage Grace    Jay Griffiths    

"there are two sides:  the agents of waste and the lovers of the wild  Either for life or against it.  And each of us has to choose."

she begins in the Amazon.

"Writing notes was hard.   We walked from first light until dark,  going at a cracking pace and when we stopped it wasn't for long.  I would scribble the odd word in my notebook as I walked,  trying not to trip.  In the evening,  the guides tied candles to the trees with shreds of plant tendrils and as they ate and slept,  I would write my notes in almost complete darkness, for the light of the torch would attract a thousand moths and insects.  A guide saw my difficulty and caught a firefly for me,  gently looping a thread around its body and tying it to the tip of my pen so it glowed it's gentle green light on my notebook."