I am an ecologist and a composer of guitar based instrumental melodies signed to the Real Music label in California. I like to write about my work, music and nature conservation and how it all comes together. I try not to write about things I don't know much about.
I was once lying in a tent in the ancient and extremely evocative landscape of the Navajo National Monument in Arizona, listening to the wind in the juniper trees in otherwise total silence…years later I wrote this tune about it…
Available on the album “Heading West” on itunes, Amazon and all the others….
Aldo Leopold was a great visionary writer who realised before most people that in conserving wild nature we save ourselves…
“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”