Lunch in the Woods

I was walking down this truck trail into this clearing looking for a place to have lunch. I had just measured 4 timber plots and was getting hungry. As I was about to sit down on the edge on the tree edge you are viewing, I heard a grunt- growl behind me up slope 200 yards. This caught my attention when I heard another similar noise and it sounded like two animals harmonizing! If you had ever heard coyotes barking and chiming, well this was similar but lower, like about 5 octives looooower!! This carried on for about 15 seconds and then quiet! This really had my attention now as I asked myself, why did I not walk back to the truck (only 300 yards) and get my 45 when my memory kicked in when starting my walk in here earlier this morning?! My initial response to this was "flight" but after looking up, and saying Lord, do I need to beet feet out of here or what?! The answer was, cool it Phil you have been in more tense moments than this in the woods? And besides most critters in the woods still have fear of man, don't they?! So I relaxed along the forest edge, ate my lunch, viewed the scenery listening and listening. Not a sound for 20 minutes. Then back to work and that evening, I came across the landowner driving into camp and told him what I had heard. He said, yep, we have a pack of wolves up above Grouse Creek. You could have heard them because they have a pretty large range. And with that I resolved to carry another 7 pounds in my pack as standard equipment.

Or, did I really miss the point here, by only considering the immediate need for sustenance and preservation? Might not there be larger questions here like how did all this structure surrounding and above me get here? Was it a matter of all these living cells , mouse traps if you will, just falling in to place one day, start working perfectly, or, were they constituted and arranged by some intelligent design? What happens to a mouse trap when one of its working parts is removed? What are the chances of each structure happening? Some scientists think if it is plainly evident then it..........? In what direction should we look for answers? The pictures above depict a direction I have been looking for years but was I really seeing? What do you think?