When you’re walking across the Earth for 10 continuous years—as I am on the Out of Eden Walk storytelling project—you get used to hopscotching around trash. Sadly our beleaguered planet, as seen from boot level at the dawn of the 21st century, often resembles a tipped-over garbage can.
So it’s strange to encounter corners of the globe where a scrap of litter can actually comfort, captivate—and even inspire art.
The sparsely inhabited plains and mountains of Central Asia are one such place.
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