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“It had weaponised history and tradition.”

“Being sworn at by woodland creatures is disquieting, but comforting too.”

“ fungi, force us to consider the limits of our understanding: not everything fits easily into our systems of classification. The world might be, it turns out, too complicated for us to know.”

“And perhaps my wonky neurology was reading too much from this experience, but sometimes, I went on to think, when you berate yourself, it might be the case that you do so needlessly. Sometimes it is not you. Sometimes the world is to blame.”

“We do not want to imagine what it would be like to have our familiar places reduced to ruins.”

“Something tugs at my heart. I’ll never see any of these birds again. If I weren’t this high, and the birds weren’t briefly illuminated by this column of light cast by a building thrown up through the Depression years to celebrate earthly power and capital confidence, I’d never have seen them at all.”

“That messy stretches of species-rich vegetation, with all their attendant invertebrate life are better, just better, than eerie, impoverished silence of modern planting schemes and fields. I wonder how we might learn to align our aesthetic and moral landscapes to fit that intuition. I wonder. I think of the meadow.”