The introduction ends with this inspiring passage. We are woven into this miraculous light-loving fabric. Y


et surely one


fundamental measure of our civilisation, now and always, is our devotion to the living and to the maintenance of that living fabric – birds and people, flowers and insects, bumblebees and bush crickets, mammals and fishes in


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all their teaming diversity. To assume that we alone are all that matter and to contemplate with any kind of equanimity the loss of those other species, or a part of them, is to risk losing our very souls and silencing our own imaginations. A world without birds would lay waste the human heart. After this splendid introduction you can tackle the book proper. And this is


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