Sublime

highlighting the environmental protections purportedly shielding

misplaced sense of rightful dominion over local communities, landscapes and wildlife. Reading their proposal in the same

lacked the cultural affirmation of downs, dales and lochs in the national imagination.

opportunity from the wider landscape to encounter Rackham’s ‘exquisite beauty of the small and complex and unexpected’.

Condemning such terms as ‘Sites of Special Scientific Interest’, ‘no-catch zones’, ‘reference areas’ and ‘natural capital’ for a lack of vision when describing the remarkable vitality and richness of the planet we inhabit, he went on to write, ‘Had you set out to estrange people from the living world, you could scarcely have done better.’ The