Traces — Natural Or Sentient?
I daydream and I am prone to conjecture about other worlds with atmospheres like ours, having wind and rain and erosion. I wonder who might exist there and how if I landed in an empty, uninhabited place I could tell whether any native organisms were gregarious or not, or even intelligent. Living creatures generally leave traces. Even in the emptiness of the western landscape pictured below I found tracks, but what do they reveal about the indigenous beings if any exist? Which of these marks were made by self-conscious creatures and which have been caused by other forces?

December 8, 2020 By Redburnusa