A notice in a campsite kitchen set me daydreaming about applying similar thinking to our precious rural environment.

Please leave this sink in the same state
as you would wish to find it.
Please leave this kitchen in the same state
as you would hope to find it.
Please leave this campsite in the same state
as you would expect to find it.
This strath, this burn, this loch, these hills,
these trees, this forest, this beach, this field,
this soil, these plants and flowers,
this earth with every living thing it bears –
please leave them in the same state
as you would wish to, hope to,
yes expect to
find them.