Lone Trees on Dartmoor
A walk from Emsworthy Mire.
Dartmoor is an impressive landscape of human destruction.
![Emsworthy Mire - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Emsworthy-Mire-The-Hall-of-Einar-2-725x408.jpg)
It’s been cut and burnt and grazed.
![Emsworthy Mire - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Emsworthy-Mire-The-Hall-of-Einar-13-725x725.jpg)
And thousands of years of human destruction have left this magnificent desolation.
![Emsworthy Mire - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Emsworthy-Mire-The-Hall-of-Einar-3-725x408.jpg)
Solitary trees make wind-contorted shapes like the Spirit of Ecstasy.
![Emsworthy Mire - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Dartmoor-The-Hall-of-Einar-2.jpg)
Weathered tors squat like ancient religious artefacts on the landscape.
![Emsworthy Mire - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Dartmoor-The-Hall-of-Einar-3-725x725.jpg)
And I can feel the spirit of ecstasy.