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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

Book by George Monbiot · 5 quotes · Ecology, Environment, Rewilding

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“cultural cringe which prevents other people from challenging them. the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci used the term ‘cultural hegemony’ to describe the way in which ideas and concepts which benefit a dominant class are universalised. they become norms, adopted whole and unexamined, which shape our thinking”

Philosophy Culture Morality Manipulation Opinions Superficiality Hegemony Disinterest Copying Others Lack Of Motivation

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“walking in the Cambrian Desert, it sometimes seems impossible to imagine trees returning there, the emptiness stands as an incontestable fact, as if it were a matter of geology, not ecology”

Environment Desert Ecology Forest Geology Climate Crisis Deforestation Rewilding Greenhouse Effect Desertification

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“we can probably, as a nation, loose all our birds, and there is an increasing number of people who wouldn’t even notice. as we become more urban, we’re loosing out attachment”

Environment Bird Appreciation Animals Ecology City Life Disconnect Urbanization Rewilding Fauna

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“we can probably, as a nation, loose all our birds, and there is an increasing number of people who wouldn’t even notice. as we become more urban, we’re loosing our attachment”

Environment Bird Appreciation Animals Ecology City Life Disconnect Urbanization Rewilding Fauna

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“most human endeavours, unless checked by public dissent, evolve into monocultures. money seeks out a region’s comparative advantage, the field in which it competes most successfully, and promotes it to the exclusion of all else. every landscape or seascape, if this process is loosed, performs just one function. this greatly taxes the natural world”

Environment Policy Exploitation Ecology Natural Resources Climate Crisis Rewilding

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