And as for the dog walkers, it's not just about the universal British law that anyone can traverse anybody's land whatever they want if they're taking a walk.

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The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil. e. the baseline gradually includes more and more of the effect that the project is aiming to counter.Isabella Tree is a great storyteller who manages to convert quite a lot of technical information into a plot - a drama, even - which any reasonably intelligent and diligent reader can follow.

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It is both a disheartening look at our failure to husband the natural resources and processes with which we have been blessed and at the same time a hopeful sign of the benefits of 'letting nature take its course'.

With an abundance of invertebrates come predators and this rippled up until they realised that they peregrine falcons back. The only problem with the book, and the reason I'm giving it three stars instead of four, is that in lieu of personal reflections, Tree pads the book with summaries of other pop science books she's read. She starts the story by describing her and her husband's efforts to intensively farm their land, winning awards and setting records for dairy production despite unfavorable heavy clay soil. By expurgating nature from children's lives we are depriving the environment of its champions for the future. This is a fantastic book, beautifully written and so full of interesting facts you are going to want to re-read it and/or jot down notes throughout.

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This change presumably - surely - started with this book and with what the author and her husband undertook at their farm in West Sussex. If you want to read more about the impact industrial agriculture has on our planet, without being horribly depressed throughout and in fact being enchanted on occasion, this book is for you. Isabella and her husband Charlie Burrell have also introduced Exmoor ponies, longhorn cattle, red deer and Tamworth pigs which are allowed to roam free on their aristocratic estate. The male swoops in tight loops under and up and in front of her, stalling so she can pass beneath him through a shower of intoxicating scent-scales shed from his forewings.

Wide-eyed and sharp-penned, she explores not the backwater myth but a fast-evolving semi-continent… Tree mixes her erudition with ebullience. The book recounts the battles against local opposition to 'destruction' of the estate's perceived attractiveness, against blinkered bureaucracy and even against thoughtless dog owners. A riveting, gloriously written read which expands our imagination, and fuels our commitment to reversing the cataclysmic decline of virtually all species, other than our own.