DARTMOOR correspondence over the last few weeks reflects the stalwart personalities of its defenders.
A wild place feeds the human spirit, but in the face of the integrity of the moor greatly undermined, letters from John Bainbridge and Bill Radcliffe are impressively intact as to good thinking and logic, whereas others unable to appreciate Dartmoor, reflect its lost integrity, and the more lowly aspects of human nature.
So beneficial are naturally contoured hills and free-flowing rivers that mankind can be saved from insanity, and that leads to self-destruct. Also there is crime. For example, this was virtually unknown amongst North American Indians before the white man, and for thousands of years the Indians regarded the pristine land on which they lived as sacred.
Martin McLeod
84 Station Road
Okehampton