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trees all the way to the sea.grasses headbanging at a concert.strawberry moon rising Helen Forester of Benfield Valley Project tells me that putting across the value of this easily accessible wild space in terms of its health giving qualities carries no weight with decision makers during community consultations, despite its proven levelling effect on income based health disparity. |
///latest.earth.wisely raw.nature.being.awesome "It's your own small landscape that you can actually enact change on. I think microcosm is the right word to describe the shimmer and that touches an emotional place that not many things do." Lawrence Leather, climate activist and chalk grassland restorer |
///drums.bliss.shadow anthill.Rockrose.Cistus Forester.grassland seedbank Do biodiverse landscapes give of more of a shimmer? Could the shimmer index of a site be a shorthand for its health-giving properties? "You never feel alone out here." Kim Greaves, Friends of Waterhall |