Before We Explain the World

Photography by Lu Heng

4Meeting Other Lives

Room for Other Lives

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Find the animals on the ground, then let the view widen across the grass. The small birds at the end take a little searching. Life remains in the larger landscape, even when it no longer fills the centre.

  1. Two dark buffalo stand in open pale grassland beneath a low, distant horizon.
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    Buffalo on open grassland

  2. Elephants stand on grass beside water, with a wide blue sky above.
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    Elephants by the water

  1. A giraffe stands in golden grassland, its neck reaching towards a lightly clouded sky.
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    A giraffe on the plain

  1. Golden grassland beneath blue sky; Golden grass and scattered low shrubs stretch beneath a pale blue sky.
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    Golden grassland beneath blue sky

  2. Open grassland beneath morning sky; A shallow gully crosses dry grassland beneath a wide, lightly clouded sky.
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    Open grassland beneath morning sky

  1. Birds above river wetlands; A flock flies above green reeds beside a narrow strip of blue water.
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    Birds above river wetlands

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