Hello world!

This is my new blog called Tracker Land.

It’s about tracking as a way of life, and getting back to the land — a huge journey for a modern urban/suburban person. Reading footprints is only a small part of this!

Modern humans live outside nature. They research nature and ecology to identify the most efficient ways to productively industrialise. They study the web of life, extract from their environment, make policy about it, and use its resources to produce things like wealth, entertainment, content, and in the end always pollution, garbage, and death.

What I am seeking here is to learn about how people lived who were the opposite of this: To be nature, to live inside the web of life, to know ecology, to speak with the environment as part of it. If we go back far enough, all of our ancestors once lived this way. To be fully like this in 2025 is unattainable, but the closer I can become, the more alive I will be.

The first premise is that the closer I can become to the creature that a member of the species homo sapiens was originally put on Earth to be (this was a long time ago), the better it will be for myself and everything else.

The next premise is that since it’s impossible to become fully natural in the modern world, and since it’s important to not be always looking to the future (as this itself goes against the path), I will focus on a role that is attainable: to be someone who notices things. This is the path of the tracker.

This is a lot more than it sounds.