This path takes you into the Cley Reserve, the oldest, best known and most visited nature reserve in Norfolk. For us, it’s a kind of songline transporting us into the heart of wild nature – our nature within and this around us. Well, Dina and our Master sometimes say that the last wildness is to be found within only. Do you agree?
Dieser Weg führt geradewegs ins Naturschutzgebiet von Cley, das älteste und besuchteste Landschafts- und Tierschutzgebiet Norfolks. Für uns ist er eine Art Pfad mitten ins Herz wilder Natur – der inneren und äußeren. Unsere geliebte Dina und Masterchen meinten neulich, die letzte Wildnis liegt nur noch in unserem Inneren. Meint Ihr das auch?
In Wilderness we get a feeling for life’s miracles
Siri and Selma
Our Wildness: A landscape of outstanding natural beauty, marshes, reed beds, shingle and sand and sky and sea. The land on the edge, how the author Richard Mabey discribes it in his autobiography “Home Country”: “the edge between humanity and nature“, running from Salthouse through Cley to Blakeney Point is hugely valued for its wild nature.
Unsere Wildnis: Eine Landschaft außerordentlicher Schönheit, Salzmarschen, Ried, Kies-und Sandstrände. Das Land am Ende der Welt, wie es der englische Autor Richard Mabey in seiner Autobiographie “Home Country” beschreibt, als Grenze zwischen menschlicher Welt und Natur, das sich von Salthouse durch Cley bis zur Haff-Nehrungsküste des Blakeney Points hinzieht, wird europaweit gelobt für seine (fast) reine Natur.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization
Charles Lindbergh
Jack Higgins describes our area: “It was a strange alien world of sea creeks and mudflats and great pale barriers of reeds higher than a man’s head, inhabited only by the birds, curlew and redshank and brent geese coming south from Siberia to winter on the mud flats.” Exactly this is our wilderness!
Der Autor Jack Higgins beschreibt die Gegend zwischen Cley und Blakeney: “Es war eine eigenartig fremde Welt von Prielen und Watt und großen Barrieren vom fahlen, über mannshohem Ried, die nur von Vögeln bewohnt ist, vom Brachvogel und Rotschenkel und den Wildgänsen, die von Sibirien kommend im Watt überwintern“. Genau das ist unsere Wildnis!
In literature wildness is the place to proof oneself. Opposite to culture it’s a challenge, the refugium of those who are afraid of people. To be alone in the wilderness you will find yourself or God what is the practice of many rites of initiation. The picture of the wild ist mostly an expression of the romantic idea of naturalness and absolute freedom. It fascinates all those who find people and their actions boring.
In der Literatur ist die Wildnis meist der Ort, an dem man sich bewähren muss. Sie ist Herausforderung und der Gegensatz zur Kultur. Hierhin zieht sich der Menschenscheue zurück. Allein in der Wildnis findet man sich oder Gott. Darauf beruhten viele Initiationsriten. Die Wildnis als Bild ist meist der Ausdruck einer romantischen Idee von Natürlichkeit und absoluter Freiheit. Sie übte vor allem auf jene eine Anziehungskraft aus, die angesichts der Taten der Menschheit Langeweile empfinden.
From a little bit of wilderness with love
Mit naturschwärmerischen Grüßen
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
© Text and illustrations, Hanne Siebers and Klausbernd Vollmar, Cley next the Sea, 2016
Fond memories of watching an incoming tide fill marshy areas. The menacing swirls of water around the “low tide islands”, and the thanks that I was not trapped on one of them… because there would be no escaping the incoming water. Desolation can certainly be dramatically beautiful, and very dangerous for the unwary!
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Good morning,
you are right besides its beauty our coast can be quite dangerous: strong currents and the water often comes in from your back.
Wishing you a sunny day
The Fab Four of Cley
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I have seen the tide coming in when there has been a mist, so there are lots of moving water sounds from the mist, but could only see the immediate activity. Beautiful and disconcerting all at the same time! 🙂
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Yes, you truly are my Fab Four of Cley !! Thank you for being my friends.
GP Cox
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Dear GP Cox,
we are so happy being your friends 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Lots of love and sunshine from the little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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Have a terrific week, Klausbernd.
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Das Land am anderen Ende der Welt….. ja so kann man es sich jetzt vorstellen.
Wunderschöne Fotos, die eine ungemeine Ruhe und Gelassenheit ausstrahlen.
Harmonie pur.
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Dankeschön, liebe Laura,
das ist hier in der Tat so eine Entspannungs-Seele-baumeln-lassen-Gegend.
Mach’s gut, liebe Grüße vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer
Die Fantastischen Vier
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Simply wonderful photography, Dina. You capture the very essence of our surroundings in Norfolk. And the text, as usual, compliments the images so well.
Love from Beetley, Pete and Ollie. X
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Good morning, dear Pete,
what a gorgeos day, warm and sunshine.
Thank you very much for your kind words 🙂 especially as you know our area.
Have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley xxxx
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Lovely and spare, like a Wyeth painting.
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Dear Cindy,
you made Dina’s day comparing her pictures with those of Wyeth 🙂 We agree, Dina’s best pictures are like minimalist paintings.
Thank you very much.
We wish you all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Superb photos, Dina. This brooding kind of wildness must inspire the inner wild? Looks inspirational.
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Yes, it does!
We are getting most of our inspirations walking in the marshes or on the remote beaches.
Love
The Fab Four of Cley
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Spectacular photography, Dina. We like “external” wildness because we think we can control the proximity, or be entertained by what we see. Internal – ah that is another matter altogether. Happy Monday from Vancouver. Hugs and love to my dear friends, the Fab Four of Cley.
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Good morning our dear friend Clanmother
we experience that the external wildness can be a key to our internal wildness. Being in the marshes sets us free, it is the best remedy against our blockages.
With a big HUG from the sunny salt-marshes of North Norfolk.
We wish you a very happy and sunny week
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Oh how very well said!’ Have a wonderful day – sunshine in Vancouver! Life is good!
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Yes, I know Norfolk well and have visited Cley. Your images are beautiful. Sally
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Thank you very much, dear Sally.
Are you a birdwatcher? You know we are “the Mecca of birdwatching”.
Love from Cley
The Fab Four
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Fabulous indeed, the Cley Quartet. I like the notion of your own songline. Such epic wildness.
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Good morning, dear Tish,
thank you very much for your kind commentary.
“Cley Quartet” reminds us on “The Alexandria Quartet” by Lawrence Durrell 😉 Thanks for giving us this name 🙂 We like Durrell’s novels very much and a friend of ours knew L. Durrell quite well and talked a lot about his time living with him.
We wish you a sunny day
The Cley Quartet
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You have no idea how odd a congruity that is, Klausbernd. It was only yesterday that I remembered again (after years of forgetting) that I liked Lawrence Durrell. (It was The Labyrinth I first thought of) And then I wondered why I no longer had any of books. And thinking that I also needed to read the Alexandria Quartet, now – as a grown up person. Clearly, now that you, too, have raised his spirit, some re-reading is definitely called for. When I wrote Cley Quartet, I was also thinking of ‘Quartet in the key of Cley! Must be your mention of songlines. Song of the Earth.
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Dear Tish,
my friend Martin, who wrote a novel about the life in Cley, talked quite a lot about L. Durrell but, I don’t know why, I never read his books until last year when I found all the novels of “The Alexandria Quartet” in one big volume on a jumble sale. I bought it and read it immediately. It reminded me partly of my hippie days living in groups. Martin met L. Durrell several times in Greece and Cyprus, where Durrell wrote the 4 novels of “The Alexandria Quartet” in the early fifties.
Wishing you fun re-rading Durrell 🙂
Love
Klausbernd
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That’s so intriguing. I’ve just bought the e-book, so enjoy it I will 🙂
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I too, love the idea of your own Songlines in this dramatic wilderness, Fabs! Stunning photographs as ever, Dina, and great words…
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Dear Sue
thank you very, very much 🙂
Yes, our own Songlines … Don’t we all need such Songlines transporting us into the otherland?
Wishing you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Songlines as lanes to the land of the past…. Yes! Have a great week, Fab Four 😀
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Very interesting content/texts. Something ti ponder… 😊
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Thank youvery much 🙂
Have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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quelle grandi nuvole bianche sembrano pressare il paesaggio, appiattendolo, immagini di grandissima suggestione e bellezza a rendere in pieno il senso della selvaggia natura, complimenti e saluti
Annalisa
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Thank you very much for your compliments 🙂 and kind words.
All the best to you
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lovely tour through the preserve. I liked Lindbergh’s thought.
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Good morning, dear John,
we love your notion “preserve” for our reserve – GREAT!
Quite a while ago we blogged about Mrs Lindbergh and found a lot of quotes we like by both Mr and Mrs Lindbergh. Both were quite eloquent.
We wish you a sunny and happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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I remember the post. Thanks.
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Big skies and a flat world. Beautiful isn’t it? Love to all xxx
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Good morning, dear Jo
these are the secret documents of the Flat Earth Society 😉
Actually it isn’t that flat as it seems. Our hinterland is hilly, well, not high hills but about 100 m high.
Thank you and lots of love from
The Fab Four of Cley xxxx
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Tolle Fotos, liebe Dina. Das erste mit der dicken Wolke hat es mir besonders angetan. Liebe Grüße aus Greenwich an Euch vier, Peggy
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Guten Morgen, liebe Peggy,
schön, wieder von dir zu lesen. Vielen Dank für deine lobenden Worte.
Ganz liebe Grüße von Cley nach Greewich
The Fab Four of Cley xx
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Glorious skies, and a marvelous feeling of freedom! Wonderful!
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Good morning, dear Jude,
great that you like our blog 🙂 Thank you.
We need this feeling of freedom in the mashes. We couldn’t imagine living not next the sea.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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As ever – beautiful images and thought-provoking words. Thank you!
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Good morning, dear Guni,
what a surprise! Thanks for your kind words 🙂
Enjoy the sunshine, see you.
Warm greetings to you, Dick and Quay
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wonderful, painterly images, Hanne.
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Good mornig, dear Jane,
thanks for your kind words 🙂
Wishing you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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This is absolutely gorgeous. I love the quotes you have juxtaposed to the photographs. Beautifully done!
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Dear May
WOW! Thank you very much, we really feel honoured by the kind words of the Shieldmaiden 🙂
I like your article “The Sacred Feminine in Norse Mythology”. Thanks for all its information. A while ago I lectured and published about female pirates – in many respects quite similar … I wanted to write a comment there but unfortunately your blog didn’t like me 😉
All the best
Klausbernd
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Thank you Klausbernd. Oh my, I am quite sorry about the blog glitch… I wonder if there is anything I can do to fix it.
I am grateful for your kind words on the Sacred Feminine in Norse Myths. I enjoy the topic very much and I am curious about the angle covering female pirates:) I can imagine what the similarities might be.
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Dear May,
I don’t know if you read German. You can find this article about female piracy on my blog
https://kbvollmar.wordpress.com/artikelpiraterie/
It’s the long article there.
No, there is nothing to fix on your blog. I suppose it’s a problem of mine. When I am asked to enter my PIN I end up on my blog again.
I really like you blog and your text about Norse mythologies. Actually our blog here is quite influenced by these ideas as well because Dina is Norwegian and I have not only lived in the North for quite a while but I studied old Norse and nordic literature. North Norfolk, where we live, was a stronghold of the Vikings under Canute the Great.
All the best
Klausbernd
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Wonderful! Thank you for the link to your blog. My German is limited, but I will definitely look into it.
Best to you and Dina
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Beautiful landscape! I love wild areas devoid of the hum and buzz of people.
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Good morning, dear Eliza,
then North Norfolk would be the right place for you.
Thanks and have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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refreshing for the eyes
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It really is! 🙂
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Challenging indeed! But beautiful shots, really. The wild reminds us of how vast nature is, and how small we are in the larger scheme of things in the world 🙂
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Out there in the salt-marshes and on the beaches we become very small and we suppose that’s healing.
Thanks for commenting.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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The lack of people helps to make these photos outstanding. So natural. I can hear that surf and feel the breeze.
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Dear Anneli
we are quite lucky that we usually don’t see people out in the marshes and we hope that it will stay like that. Fortunately the access to many marshland and some beaches is not that easy. We suppose that helps.
Thank you 🙂
We wish you a great week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Definitely that helps!
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Die Fotos erwecken Sehnsuch nach dieser wilden Natur, die uns so gut gefallen und beeindruckt hat, du hast sie vortrefflich festgehalten, Hanne! Ihr habt euch einen schönen Ort zum Leben ausgesucht, Klausbernd und Hanne!
Grüße aus dem heute grauen Berlin von Susanne und Micha
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Guten Morgen liebe Susanne und lieber Micha,
von den Maschen wieder zurück in Berlin. Es war schön mit euch und nun wünschen wir euch wieder gutes Einleben in der Großstadt.
Vom sonnig warmen Cley ganz liebe Grüße
Hanne und Klausbernd
und auch von uns: Siri und Selma, die fröhlichen Buchfeen
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Das ist eine wirklich tolle Gegend. Diese Weite, dieser Himmel. Einfach nur schön!
Liebe Grüße. 🙂
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Nach all den Jahren finden wir es immer noch toll hier – besonders heute bei frühsommerlichen Sonnenschein 🙂
Ganz liebe Grüße und vielen Dank dir
Die Famosen Vier
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This is absolute magnificent. You turn the reserve into a magical, mythical place with your sense for words and beautiful images. Bravo!
Sarah x
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Dear Sarah
thank you very much.
With lots of love from the magical, mythical place
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Excellent images, a place for contemplation as many writers have discovered. Have you read WG Sebald’s ‘Rings of Saturn’? And Larkin’s description of Holderness seems to fit:
Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken,
Luminously-peopled air ascends;
And past the poppies bluish neutral distance
Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach
Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence:
Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.
from ‘Here’
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Good morning, dear Dave,
thank you very much for your commentary.
Yes, we read Sebalds “The Rings of Saturn” and visited his birth place in Bavaria. We bloggt about him
https://kbvollmarblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/w-g-sebald/
But we didn’t know Ph. Larkings fine description. Oh dear, unfortunately we know about him but haven’t read him yet. The quote is very fitting, thanks a lot.
Enjoy the sunshine
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a prfect combination of moving text and photos. It looks like the ultimate place to connect with you inner wildness. Or maybe your inner peace?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had a Songline to like this to the nature of our hearts.
Thank you.
Best regards,
John
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Hi, dear John,
maybe there is a songline for everyone but one has to find it.
Inner wildness and inner peace seem to us close connected, the different sides of the same coin.
Thanks and all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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What you said “In wilderness we get a feeling for life’s miracles” really spoke to me this morning. I shared this post in my twitter feed.
All the best,
Amy
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Dear Amy
thank you very much. We feel honoured 🙂
Do you know the novel “The Loney” by Andrew Michael Hurley about the wild, the natural, the miracles and the human? We suppose you would love it. We have just started reading it.
Have a great week
The Fab Four of Cley
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I had not heard of it. I keep a list of books to read on Goodreads, so I have added it to my list. It looks quite different from other books I tend to read, so that’s good, thanks for the recommendation.
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You are very welcome!
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P.S.
Actually it is not the kind of I would read, but Stephen King and the Guardian praised this book very much – especially for its style.
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Yes, and it does help to wander away from what you “usually” read and try something new from time to time.
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Hach… seufz… die Bilder ziehen mich direkt hinein in diese Wildnis… ganz besonders das erste, selbst um den Preis, dass die dicke fette Wolke mir auf den Kopf fallen könnte. 😉
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Guten Tag, liebe Maren,
ach, wir sind doch nicht Gallien zur Zeit von Asterix 😉
Keine Angst, die Wolken bleiben schön oben. Dafür sorgen schon Siri und Sema, denn das ist magisches Feenwerk.
Ganz liebe Grüße aus dem sonnigen Cley – wolkenloser Himmel gerade
Dina und ich
Klausbernd 🙂
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A wonderful post with beautiful words and photographs. It gave me a gentle nudge as to the inspiration nature provides for us and how the wilderness helps us to connect with our true being. Thank you for sharing.
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Dear Davy
you are very welcome. We are happy that you like our blog 🙂
We think, if we would loose the wilderness outside we would getting problems to relate to the wilderness within and our true being.
Wishing you an easy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wunderbare inspirierende und harmonische Naturlandschaften, danke fürs zeigen.
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Gern geschehen, lieber Ernst 🙂
Habt ihr auch solch feines frühsommerliches Wetter?
Liebe Grüße in die Schweiz von den
Famosen Vier
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Hallo Ihr Lieben,
stimmt: bei diesen Bildern kann man wirklich ins Schwärmen geraten. Ganz herzlichen Dank und ein dickes Lob and Dina “Fotofee”! 🙂 Sie hat Eure Wildnis ganz fantastisch in Szene gesetzt.
Liebe Grüße ins kleine Dorf am groszen Meer, auch an den Master und an die “Fotofee”,
Pit
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Na ganz herzlichen Dank, lieber Pit.
Da sich Dina aber gefreut 🙂 und unsere liebklugen Buchfeen gleich mit 🙂 🙂
Wir senden dir und Mary gaaaanz liebe Grüße vom sonnigen, aber noch ziemlich kühlen Meer
Die Famosen Vier
Mach’s gut 🙂
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The wilderness gives nothing but offers everything.
As you have ocean trails in your back yard, I have mountain trails in mine. The challenge at times is to not slip so deeply into one’s thoughts that you lose sight of what surrounds you. You once posted about lucid dreaming. On the trail, I strive for almost the opposite, a sort of dreamy lucidity. Some would call it oneness or walking meditation. Awareness without thought or judgment or analysis.
I enjoy a sunny day at the beach as much as anyone, but on those darker days, when the saltwater and the sky mix, like rain on smoked glass, I feel a certain exhilaration. Of course, these adventures are often followed by a warming of the cheekbones behind an inch of storm glass and a warm cup of coffee in a local seaside diner. 🙂
Another fine post from the Fab Four.
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Dear Thorsaurus
thank you very much for your so well formulated commentary. Great!
I have to admit I sometimes need half an hour or longer to stop my inner monologue when I am walking in the marches. It’s a kind of fight to empty myself. But I welcome this getting empty, it’s a necessary clesasig process. As you write, it’s all about a non-judgemental awareness which comes easier, at least to me, if I am confronted with more or less real wilderness. Wilderness is a strong stimulus from the outside which helpsme to be in the here and now. When I have walked for hours on the beach f.e. and I am near exhaustion then this non-judgemental awareness takes over quite easily. Unfortunately it never comes automatically I have do to something to arive at that state of consciousness. But too much doing blocks it.
You might remember that we once blogged about Gurdjieff. I suppose this efford of getting free from judgements, of just be, is what he meant with his “fight against sleeping”.
Thanks again and have a great rest of the week
Klausbernd
Warm greetings from the rest of our gang 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Thank you for your kind words. Sam Harris, in his book “Waking Up”, comments on Douglas Harding’s idea of looking at the world as if you have no head. Quirky as it sounds, it can be an effective trigger to slip out of yourself on those days where you find it difficult to do so. Have a happy headless weekend. 🙂
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Dear Thorsaurus,
thanks for this tip! Especially our dear Master is interested in such books.
“Looking as if you have no head” makes very much sense, at least for us Bookfayries.
Our Saturday has been headless working in our garden in brightest sunshine 🙂
A GREAT weekend for you as well
Siri & Selma and Dina
Kind regards from our Master too, he is still in the garden-no, not working but having his closing time drink 🙂
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I love North Norfok and especially Cley, for all the reasons you describe so well. It is a beautiful, wild unique space to feel at one with nature. Wonderful post and photos.
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Thank you very much 🙂
Do come to Cley often?
Well, lavender and Cley that goes well together.
With warm greetings from the cold sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wonderful photos and description!
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Great that you like our blog 🙂
Thanks for commenting
The Fab Four of Cley
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There is something very utterly appealing about the open landscape. Cley Reserve looks like a fantastic place. I would love to go there one day—judging by your photos. 🙂
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Dear Otto,
you are very welcome to visit us 🙂 We are sure you will like it here.
This openness of the landscape helps for an inner openness as well. Always lots of skye …
But, of course, every photograph is an idealised picture of reality (what ever that is).
Thanks and all the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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I don’t think a photo necessarily is an idealized picture of reality. That really depends on the intent of the photographer, no?
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Well, I would call the intend of the photographer an ideal. For Immanuel Kant and his followers f.e. Schiller the ideal is the individual intend. Maybe my way of thinking was too much influenced from the German philosophy of enlightenment. But there are many definitions of ideal, for Hegel it was an abstract idea, nothing to do with pictures, and for many of the classic Greek philosophers it was perfection. Actuall a dazzling notion this word “ideal”.
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I guess I thought of the word ideal more in the Greek tradition—as something positive. What I meant then, is that a photograph can also be a defective representation of the world. Which of course is still ideal in a Kant-ish understanding of the word.
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This is a great topic …
We Bookfayries and our Master think: The photographer doesn’t represent the world but he represent his view – a kind of defective representation as you call it. And as more he is aware of the subjectivity of his view as bigger the chance is that he is able to produce artistic pictures.
Wishing you a sunny weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I agree; great topic. And I totally agree with you. The photographer doesn’t create a representation of the world, but his own view. Nevertheless he—or she—does cut a slice of the world to represent this view. Have a great weekend all of you, too.
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Beautiful. I love the phrase “For us, it’s a kind of songline transporting us into the heart of wild nature.” Magical.
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Dear Sue,
thank you very much.
It took our dear Master quite a while to find that phrase – you must know, he loves language and finding the best phrases. But that’s not that easy because he is not a native speaker. But he tries and we Bookfayries and Dina help him.
Lots of love from the little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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The beauty of the words has repaid the effort. Best wishes to you all from this little corner of the South Pacific 😀
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THANK YOU 🙂
Maybe sometimes it’s even easier to find the perfect expression in another language because one is not blogged by conventional expressions. We Bookfayries noticed this when Dina speaks German. Her German expressions are much more creative and to the point than these of our Master being a native speaker.
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I think that’s a really good point. I’m always complaining about how cliched a lot of everyday speech and writing have become (and how people mix cliches together until their speech is almost meaningless). But of course, learning a new language avoids a lot of the background speech “hum” that native speakers just grow up with. Happy Weekend Fab Four.
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In meinem Kopf wechseln sich gerade die Wörter, Reinheit, Wildniss, Langeweile ab….wenn es rein und wild, also ursprünglich ist, kann es unmöglich langweilig sein…nur für Menschen, die nicht genau hinschauen….
Einmal unterhielt ich mich mit einer Frau, die einen ganz wichtigen Job hatte, sie bildet “Erzieher” aus. Sie meinte: Menschen machen ganz großartige Dinge!
Ich war nämlich in Zweifel, ob das stimmt…ich erklärte ihr, dass ich inzwischen viel lieber nach den Dinge schaue, die nicht von Menschen gemacht sind.
Sie: Wieso, was meinen sie denn? Ich: Schauen sie mal, den Baum da drüben, den Himmel da oben, die Farben, die Wolken…
Sie hatte das alles vor lauter Wichtigkeit ihrer Arbeit vergessen…..
Ist es so, zerstören wir, was wir nicht verstehen und kontrollieren können?!
Es ist unglaublich, was man in Cley alles ( wieder ) entdecken kann, wenn man Zeit dazu hat!
Herzliche Grüße von Pia und ein großes Dankeschön und Kompliment für diesen tollen Post, ihr habt es sooooooo schön!
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Guten Tag, liebe Pia,
zu diesem Thema schrieb Thorsaurus und ich etwas zu dessen Kommentar.
Wir sind of in Gedanken ganz woanders und gar nicht da, nicht im sogenannten Hier und Jetzt – wenn das auch eine abgedroschene Phrase ist.
“Achtsamkeit” scheint mir der Schlüssel zu sein.
Liebe Grüße
Die Famosen Vier, die sich schon auf deinen Besuch freuen
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Also ich freue mich auch sehr! Mit Hilfe dieser genialen Fotos kann ich schon mal die alten inneren Songlines bearbeiten, damit Platz für Neues ist..
Alphaville: “Forever young”, Nik Kershaw: “I won’t? Let the sun go down on me” (nicht zu verwechseln mit Eltons: Don´t let the sun go down on me) Xavier: “Dieser Weg”, der Dauerbrenner: “Follow the yellow brick road”, da funkt manchmal “If my friends could see me now” dazwischen..ganz gemein…”Papa was a rolling stone”….
“Purple Rain” war in den letzten Wochen auch oft dabei, wegen der Farbe…
Es gibt übrigens ein ganzes Ballett nur mit Prince Liedern, das mich vor Jahren sehr beeindruckte…
Ja und so freue ich mich darauf bald in Cley zu spazieren und vor mich hin zu chanten, Life´s a dream, live a dream, Dreamsongs gibt es schon einige!
Zum Glück, die Vögel sind geduldig, wenn ich sie nerve mit Gesang, können sie auch weg fliegen, höher steigen, sie sind frei!
Ach da kommt mir noch in den Sinn: Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing…
Herzliche Grüße von Pia, es ist ja alles Schwingung, sollten wir mal versuchen zu verstehen, finde ich, dann könnten wir die Handys wegschmeißen…
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Guten Morgen, liebe Pia,
die Vögel werden sich sicher an deinem Gesang erfreuen. Da sind wir uns sicher!
Wir fahren jetzt auf Wunsch von Siri und Selma zum Blumenfest in Felbrigg, eine Art Schloss mit tollem Garten in der Nähe hier.
Wir wünschen dir ein wunderbares Wochenende
Die amosen Vier
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Evocative pictures conveying quite beautifully the atmosphere and sense of place.
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Dear Louis
Thanks for your kind words. Dina tried her best 😉 Well, she always does.
Have a happy rest of the week
The Fab Four of Cley
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It’s a wonderful term “songline,” tying one’s heart’s nature to nature outside. Is the greater wilderness within? Certainly, there’s wildness in there. I’m reminded of the setting of bonfires in The Return of the Native. Those tall fires celebrate an untamed time and match (I think) the unruly parts within the characters. Yes, the wilderness within. Higgins is certainly a skillful word-crafter. This phrase is marvelous: “great pale barriers of reeds.” Simply as an example, since there’s so much more. The photographs, too, take me where you are. Thanks for putting together and sending us this experience!
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Thank you very much for your great commentary 🙂
Maybe the real wildness, which is left, can only be found within. But on the other hand, we ask ourselves, do we want the real wildness? Can we bear it? And the more basic question: What is real wildness?
Higgins wrote “The Eagle Has Landed” partly in Blakeney, our next village. The church in this novel is Cley church. Staying in Blakeney Hotel he used to walk through the marshes from there to Cley Church (an hours walk one way).
Have a happy evening
The Fab Four of Cley
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These 3 photos are excellent!
And I feel I would be home out here – like I do in Western Jutland 🙂
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Dear Truels,
do you know that we have something in common?
Norfolk was part of the Viking Empire ruled by the Danish in the early middle ages. Especially North Norfolk is not that different from Western Jutland.
Thanks and have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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A really lovely post Siri and Selma making me all the more excited about a trip to your wilderness. Very beautiful pictures Hanne and words Klausbernd! Take care and enjoy!
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Dear Chillbrook,
thank you very much 🙂
As we have such a great weather right now we are off hiking in the salt marshes and on the beach 🙂
All the best to you from
The Fab Four of Cley
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Oh, I don’t think wilderness is just fascinating for those who find people boring – I think it’s more a fundamental need. To be unconnected to wilderness is to gradually lose something important, though one may not be able to sense just what was lost. To connect with it is deeply satisfying, and again, often beyond words. The healing power of it is immense.
I like Mabey’s “edge” quote – things happen on the edges, don’t they? Beautiful photographs!
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We don’t think that all people liking to be in the wildernes finding pople boring, but those who explore the wilderness on themself quite often having problems with social communication.
We agree, things are happening on the edges. We need edges to develop.
Have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Gorgeous photos, Dina. RH
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Thanks, dear RH
Have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Amazing landscapes.
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…indeed! Therefore we like living here.
Thanks and have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Bei solch fantastischen Bildern kann man nur ins Schwärmen geraten. Um auf Eure Frage zurückzukommen, da liegt sie doch, die Wildnis – also doch nicht nur in unserem Inneren 😉
Liebe Grüße schickt Euch die Silberdistel
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Guten Morgen, liebe Silberdistel,
da hast du schon Recht, aber was vor der eigenen Haustüre liegt, übersieht man häufg.
Wir wünschen dir noch einen wunderschönen Sonntag.
Mit lieben Grüßen aus der Wildnis
die Famosen Vier
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Love the wild freedom in your gorgeous shots!
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We need this wild freedom, we cannot live without it!
Thanks & cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Beautiful photos! I agree that wildness is where we find the true us.
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Dear Brenda
The true us is always wild!
Wishing you a happy sunny day
The Fab Four of Cley
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Indeed, I’m enjoying a happy, sunny day, thanks!!
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A lovely post with many cool photos, my beloved friends! 😝😄
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Thank you very very much our dear friend! 😄
Great 👍 That you like our pictures and texts.
Love from your Norfolk friends 👭💃🚶
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xxx
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Oh my goodness! What glorious pictures! I’m headed over to the Arctic Norway category now 🙂
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We love 💙💜💚 the Arctic.
Have fun there
Love
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Moin.
„Mit naturschwärmerischen Grüßen” – diese Grußformel habe ich noch nicht gehört. Aber passt!
Dem Text, “Herausforderung und der Gegensatz zur Kultur … usw.”, kann ich nur zustimmen. Die von euch beschriebene Gegend erinnert mich an Nord-Westfehmarn, mit seinem Haff- und Huk-Bereich, dem Salz- und dem Binnensee, nördlich von Westermarkelsdorf. Mittlerweile ist dieser Inselteil ein rund 750 ha großes Naturschutzgebiet. Selbst wenn Fehmarn sonst den Charme der frühen 70er versprüht, ist das gut so. Gut wenn die Natur geschützt und sich selbst überlassen wird, bleibt. Ich bin immer wieder mal gerne dort.
https://svenmeierx.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/ostern-montag-fehmarn/
Dort sind kaum Touristen, dafür Natur pur. Das sind für mich die Momente zum Abschalten vom Alltäglichen. An der Nachhaltigkeit arbeite ich noch 😉
Na denn, bis später wieder – lasst uns die Natur – oder was davon noch übrig ist – genießen!
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Moin, moin,
Danke für den Fehmarn-Tipp. Da sind wir noch nie gewesen. Vor vielen Jahren, als wir diesen Blog begannen, haben wir Urlaub auf Amrum gemacht und zwar im November. Das hat uns sehr gut gefallen. Die deutsche Küste kannten wir zuvor fast gar nicht.
Heute werden wir in schönste designte Natur gehen, uns ein Meer von blauen Glockenblumen im Wald eines Landhauses begucken, in dem übrigens Anne Boleyn, eine Frau Heinrichs VIII. geboren wurde. Und dort, wo die Glockenblumen sich wie ein Teppich ausbreiten, soll es auch spuken!
Liebe Grüße vom sonnigen Meer
die Famosen Vier
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Post Scriptum
Heute ist bei Googgle der featured article über den Blakeney Point, das Gebiet gleich hinter unserer Haustüre sozusagen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blakeney_Point
Hier kannst du es dir anschauen.
Viel Spaß
Kb
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Wow the vastness in the photos really makes you feel insignificant. Beautiful and incredible scenery!
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Dear Elizabeth
thank you for commenting 🙂
It’s the vasteness we love here and can’t miss anymore!
Have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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Words and pictures together bring out the inner wilderness…The open landscape and the feel of the air rushing in your face…Mesmerizing photo and enchanting words…What can I say…but that You are fabulous.
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Dear Leya,
sorry, we just found your comment from nearly 3 years back. Nevertheless, thank you very much for commenting we always appreciate 🙂 🙂
Great that you like our post. Indeed, Norfolk is breezy most of the time. But actually today we have no wind at all.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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These things happen – you get so many interesting comments to your well written posts.! Wishing you a wonderful week. This weekend I was in Umeå visiting my daughter. A wonderful city with so much cultural values and goings on. I guess that is closely attached to university cities.
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Dear Leya,
Thanks a lot for your kind answer.
Our dear Master knows Umeå, well, he has been there several times while living in Sweden. He especially loves the North of your beautiful country.
Enjoy this week 🙂 🙂
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you – the same to you.
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