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gilljames's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
This is an inspiring book.
It tells of an ambitious and successful rewilding project.
It is beautifully and thoughtfully illustrated.
There is just the right amount of information to interest those who know little about rewilding but it wouldn’t be boring to people who know more .
It isn’t a book for children: it is more of a picture book for adults. Yet it would make a good and appropriate addition to a school library.
joymargot's review
2.0
Yeesh. I’m all for rewilding and conservation but this was absolutely dripping with privilege, condescension, arrogance and self-righteousness. Sure, there’s a few interesting tidbits sandwiched between wildly dull rambling paragraphs and Tree’s classist, ableist and xenophobic remarks.
I found the “pasture-fed” chapter particularly distasteful. Tree at one point refers to deer as “free-roaming protein” and assures us that eating Dartmoor ponies has “given them a new lease of life” 🧐
If you’d like to read a less offensive book about nature, I can’t recommend Braiding Sweetgrass highly enough.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Classism, Xenophobia, and Animal death
mrs_bonaventure's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this and it made me feel joy and rage in equal measure. The restoration of nature, the rate at which wildness returns if we let it, the richness and depth of the species that make up what is truly wild land, are astonishing.
They only serve to put into greater perspective the destruction we wreak on nature every day. How much we have lost even in my lifetime. I feel as though I want to grieve for what I’ve never seen, the abundance that should be there and must have been there generations ago but we have destroyed.
Humans are so arrogant.
The more I read, the more I hold patriarchal capitalism at fault for it all. When we will realise the planet is our mother?
Tread lightly.
Anyway. Here is a small, lyrical example of the difference that can be made when we let go of the rules, and see what happens.
They only serve to put into greater perspective the destruction we wreak on nature every day. How much we have lost even in my lifetime. I feel as though I want to grieve for what I’ve never seen, the abundance that should be there and must have been there generations ago but we have destroyed.
Humans are so arrogant.
The more I read, the more I hold patriarchal capitalism at fault for it all. When we will realise the planet is our mother?
Tread lightly.
Anyway. Here is a small, lyrical example of the difference that can be made when we let go of the rules, and see what happens.
sissymachine's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
wizard_marzak's review against another edition
5.0
So much interesting (and important) information about every aspect of the Knepp Estate rewilding project, I found a lot if it relevant to my A Level Geography and Biology.
northwyrm's review
informative
2.75
Not a fan of the way the author kept saying "scientists deny this, but us humble down to earth folk know this" before quoting down to earth ecologists who were scientists. Not a specific quote just the tone of the book irked me so much trying to drive a wedge between people in contact with the land vs dry and stuffy academics, when in actual fact it's academics providing the research that's being quoted and field ecologists are very much in tune with the land. I was recommended this as someone who studied ecology at university so I found this glaring, but other readers might enjoy it more than me.
robinyabooks's review against another edition
5.0
Changing the world back to greener days may be impossible, but we now have places like Knepp as small windows into what that world could look like!
Stocked full of information, this book didn't just teach me about re-wilding but the impact farming has on the land, how much a keystone species can really change a landscape and without them other species can't thrive or even survive.
After reading this, I've made a conscious decision that I will visit Knepp to get ideas for a tiny scale project in my back garden!
Stocked full of information, this book didn't just teach me about re-wilding but the impact farming has on the land, how much a keystone species can really change a landscape and without them other species can't thrive or even survive.
After reading this, I've made a conscious decision that I will visit Knepp to get ideas for a tiny scale project in my back garden!