Wandering forth

"It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves..."
John Muir


Flow lines streak below the emerging autumnal hues of the sessile oak, birch, hazel, ash, sycamore and beech that line the banks of the River Dart, just downstream of Holne Bridge on Dartmoor.

The medieval granite bridge was built after an earlier bridge was destroyed in a flood in 1413.