Ben Goldsmith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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In his Gaia hypothesis, James Lovelock was the first westerner to propose that the world is a single living being, Gaia. This of course has always been an obvious truth to animist, indigenous societies. What a man, what a life. https://t.co/hKew4scOga

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“Destroying a rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” Edward O Wilson, naturalist known as a ‘modern-day Darwin’, dies aged 92. https://t.co/w90oXZ1Qnb

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Wild Fell by Lee Schofield is a beautiful book by a brilliant man who is devoting his life to restoring nature in the terribly denuded Lake District. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/10/wild-fell-by-lee-schofield-review-lake-district-rewilded-rspb-haweswater?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Having purged Britain's greenest Tory leader since Margaret Thatcher, Boris Johnson's party is toying with ditching Britain's political consensus on nature and climate. https://t.co/KpAL2DRFWE

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Joan Didion, who died today, whose book Blue Nights moved me to my soul, on the death of her daughter ~ https://t.co/w5lP6Whtl7

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If you haven’t yet read #Cornerstones by Benedict Macdonald you must. This book poetically and mesmerically describes how our landscapes really work. It should be required reading for anyone who has the responsibility of managing land in Britain. Go go and buy this book. https://t.co/umyX7if0Va

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This week on my new podcast, Rewilding The World, learn about Europe’s beautiful and growing dam removal movement from one of its leading lights, Pao Fernandes Garrido. Far too many of our rivers are straitjacketed and choked by strings of concrete dams and weirs, many of which… https://t.co/BKPqjqQ3f8 https://t.co/LUCN5XSvwF