Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
because to some people it looks like a big empty space with nothing in it, but for us, it’s a really important place filled with wildlife and lovely, wonderful communities, and we wanted to protect them.’ She’d appealed to the critical difference between ‘space’ and ‘place’ – one a malleable territory largely Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wi
... See more‘arms open conservation,’ an approach that would involve and inspire visitors to make a deeper connection to the Trust’s places. In service of this, she had recently pushed more power out of the head office and into the hands of those working on the ground, at the places themselves.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
“Nature-based communities don’t have a voice because [modern] governance structures do not have a place for their voices. These ways of living with the land can disappear so quickly when they’re seen as primitive, not innovative.” — Julia Watson