Yesterday I sat down and decided to start reading it, and get a few chapters in…and ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting!

Bottom line: weird vibes. Read like someone strong-armed him into writing a book, but didn’t tell him how to write a book. Really weird silence around his own life and circumstances that made it more uncomfortable and hard to believe than strictly necessary. Pareil pour la forêt, car qui dit chevreuil, dit bien évidemment forêt. On apprend certainement des choses qu’on ne savait pas encore. Et puis, on vit une immersion humaine et totale dans la forêt. C’est différent de tous les rapports écologiques que nous lisons habituellement. Ce sont des renseignements complémentaires très précieux, et c’est du vécu.Delorme becomes a creature of the forest. He learns to live without a tent or sleeping bag and forage for whatever food he can find. He blends in with the deer and, slowly, they accept him into their world. He witnesses their births and deaths, courtship and battles, ostracism and friendship over the cycles of their lives. Among the deer, he experiences the beauty, pain, fear, and joy of a life lived as a part of nature, not separate from it. He tells me about a map recently drawn up by the government, which identified the trust’s North Assynt Estate as one of the country’s most extensive areas of wilderness. I nod unthinkingly in approval, picturing the grand, curving aspect of the Assynt landscape. It is a stark, treeless place where golden eagles flash over a wind-scoured moonscape of moor and blanket bog. Maybe could have forgiven all the “humans are poison” vitriol if he’d given more context other than deforestation is bad and I don’t like how much sugar people eat but, like, we know this and not all of us signed up for things being this way? Humans are nature too and self-righteousness isn’t the best way to go about reminding others of that, imo.

Hacía trabajos de fotografía para no caer en la indigencia, aunque el dinero no era una de sus prioridades, pues buscaba estabilidad moral. «Más vale ser pobre y libre que rico y preso.» Geoffroy menosprecia la sociedad del despilfarro y es crítico con una economía que amenaza con hundirse. Si bien incurría en la sociedad algunos días para reponerse y saquear el frigorífico de sus padres, limitaba la presencia del mundo humano en el bosque. No renunció a la tecnología moderna, aunque solo la utilizaba cuando era estrictamente necesario.One of the most important things that we always stress, whether you’ve been hunting for 30 years or you’re just starting for the first time, is to follow the four main rules of firearm safety, which are taught in our hunter education course,’ he said, according to Spectrum1 News. ‘Otherwise known as “TABK.”‘ Delorme covers his feet with mud to protect them from insect bites. Photograph: Alexandre Guirkinger/The Guardian

Car Delorme explique bien que la sélection naturelle fonctionne très bien, que même s’il n’y a pas de chasse, il n’y aura pas trop de chevreuils. On les voit dans les prairies et potagers, non pas parce qu’il y en a trop, mais parce qu’ils ont trop peu de forêt / sous-bois / nourriture. De surcroit, les chasseurs occasionnent de grands dégâts au niveau psychique des chevreuils et autres animaux.The prospect of mass deer shooting is one that arouses great passion, although the arguments for and against come from unexpected quarters. If the environmentalists are mounting a war, then the shooting estates – those professional deer-killers – are calling for peace, for the gentle approach. They fear the culls will go too far; that something special will be lost. Despite being sexually mature before their second birthday in productive woodland populations, only stags over five years old tend to mate. In woodland populations, hinds over one year old give birth to a single calf after an eight-month gestation, between mid-May to mid-July. Puberty may be delayed until three years old in hill hinds, which may give birth only once every two or three years. Red deer are a distinctive rusty red colour in summer turning to a brown winter coat. Adults are not spotted. C urrently we are Scotland’s only guide and outfitting company marketing sport hunting opportunities directly to the world market and providing wildlife management services to clients on a contract basis in the following structure. The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years.