29 April

I don’t like the term re-wilding, because it’s not about letting the landscape be ‘wild’, just about letting far more things live in it. It turns out all landscapes need as many animals, plants and people in them as possible, to really work. Which as Monbiot says, makes for a much more exciting life too. This is what I mean about our culture being a culture of no-place, our landscapes are dying because we don’t occupy space. We move through it, like we’re living in a map. We live in cars on roads, in planes and tractors and in houses, all shaped by maps.