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By Hugh Warwick

‘This is a superbly crafted ebook . . . well timed and crucial studying’ Kathy Willis, Director of technological know-how, Kew Gardens

It is uncommon to discover a panorama untouched through our lines – the hedges, partitions, ditches and dykes equipped to surround and separate; and the fairway lanes, roads, canals, railways and gear strains, designed to attach. This massive community of traces has remodeled our landscape.

In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological effects of the strains we've drawn: as our lives and our land have been being fenced in and threaded jointly, so flora and fauna habitats were minimize into ever smaller, and more and more unviable, fragments.

Hugh Warwick has travelled around the kingdom to discover this linescape from the point of view of our natural world and to appreciate how, with a manifesto for reconnection, we will be able to aid our natural world to flourish.

Linescapes deals a clean and bracing viewpoint on Britain’s nation-state, person who proposes a problem and offers flooring for hope; for whereas nature doesn't are likely to immediately traces and discrete borders, our strains can and do include a true capability for wildness and for wildlife.

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‘This is a superbly crafted publication . . . well timed and crucial examining’ Kathy Willis, Director of technological know-how, Kew GardensIt is uncommon to discover a panorama untouched via our traces – the hedges, partitions, ditches and dykes equipped to surround and separate; and the fairway lanes, roads, canals, railways and gear traces, designed to attach.

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