Murray Parkinson, Budawang Nights (PEOPLE WILDERNESS 2025)

The dark night sky is a wilderness that never fails to bring me a sense of awe. How can one go to bed and sleep when bush camping under the stars in the Budawang Ranges? Yet one must. Our experience of wilderness always seems too fleeting, too small a portion of our total lives consumed by the trappings of civilisation. I would prefer a night camping under the stars any day.

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