Return to My Trees

Matthew Yeomans

Description

When and how did we humans lose our connection with nature – and how do we find it again?

Matthew Yeomans seeks to answer these questions as he walks more than 300 miles through the ancient and modern forests of Wales, losing himself in their stories (and on the odd unexpected diversion, too).

Return to My Trees weaves together history and folklore with tales of industrial progress and decay. On his journey, he visits landmarks that once were home to ancient Druids, early Celtic saints, Norman Lords and the great mining communities that reshaped Wales. He becomes immersed in the woodlands that inspired the country’s great legends. At one point he even stumbles upon a herd of television-watching cows.

As Yeomans walks, he reflects on these woods’ uncertain future, his own relationship with nature and the global problems we need to solve if humans are to truly make peace with the natural world. from tree-planting in ways that are actually beneficial to the environment and local communities to embedding the value of nature into our financial and economic systems.

The result is a fascinating and funny adventure that offers insight into the past, present and future of Wales’s woodlands and shows what the rest of the world can learn from them.

Sujets

• Travel
• Great Britain
• Wales
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Calon
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781915279170
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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Notes from the Welsh Woodlands

Matthew Yeomans

2022

© Màéw Yéomàns, 2022

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For Mum and Al

There is a phrase in the Welsh language,dod yn ôl at fy nghoed

that means ‘to return to a balanced state of mind’. Its literal

translation is, rather beautifully, ‘to return to my trees’.

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Conéns

 ïnoduçîon

PART ONE chapTer 1 chapTer 2 chapTer 3 chapTer 4 chapTer 5 chapTer 6

PART T WO chapTer 7 chapTer 8 chapTer 9 chapTer 10 chapTer 11

PART THR EE chapTer 12 chapTer 13 chapTer 14 chapTer 15 chapTer 16 chapTer 17

he Fa of e Trees Hé Wîsdom o é Duîds Hé Soy o é Sàîns Hé Āàçk on é Foéss Ā Néw Foés Eçonomy Hé Oîgînà Bàçk God Sàndéd Āssés

he Power of e Trees Réçonnéçîng oug Communîy Hé Sçîénçé o é éés ïn é Foosés o é Wés Robîn ood Hé Suf o égénd Envîonménàîsm’s Romànîç Pàs

he Rise of e Trees Ā Nàîonà Foés îs Bon Hé Rîgs o éés Foés Poîîçs Hé Busînéss o Nàué Séé ànd éés Màkîng Péàçé wî Nàué

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