“When we’re children we grow up not just within homes, not just within families and communities, but within ecologies, too – encircled by clouds of birds, sharing the air with insects and pollen, our paths crisscrossing those of hedgehogs and mice; our lives are shaped and tempered by these living worlds, these embracing atmospheres into which each of us is born.”

“When we’re children we grow up not just within homes, not just within families and communities, but within ecologies, too – encircled by clouds of birds, sharing the air with insects and pollen, our paths crisscrossing those of hedgehogs and mice; our lives are shaped and tempered by these living worlds, these embracing atmospheres into which each of us is born.”

— Richard Smyth