... Back when people were a lot less, well, peopley? When we were all living in mud huts trying not to die. This is kind of a TAAT because I was reading the bird thread earlier, so many species have been reintroduced back to the UK which is great. But when I'm out walking (rural coastal area) I often wonder what it was like when the rare/extinct birds were common, and when you had a fair chance of running into a bear or wolf. In my area, the woods would have run right down to the beach along a lot of the coastline - unimaginable now. Then you have all the fens, saltmarshes and flood plains that have been drained.
And the silence - it must have been quiet, and dark, in a way we simply can't imagine now. I wonder, if we were transported back a thousand years, would it still feel LIKE Britain/the UK to us, or would it feel wilder?
It makes me feel strangely sad and homesick, to think of all we've lost over the centuries,though I'm very glad I'm not wearing animal skins and living in a wattle hut. But I think if I could go back in time, that's what I'd like to do, just experience the familiar ground in its untouched state