This Rural Life

From Verlyn Klinkenborg's editorial in the New York Times today,

What the insects are noticing--the bats, too--is beyond me. Our perceptions overlap without ever converging in the night. All the entangled lives on this farm seem to run on seperate tracks, except where they collide as predators and prey or companion and caretakers. Push this thought far enough, and nature seems to fray, to come apart into a disunity that is gathered up only by our human perceptions. And yet that gathering up is just our own kind of solipsism. I don't know that the horses have ever made a general proposition about nature, but then they don't know that I've made one either.