Summary of Julian Hoffman's Irreplaceable

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Hoo Peninsula is a rich weave of water and earth at the edge of the Thames Estuary. It’s bordered by two rivers, the Thames to the north and the Medway to the south, and has been preserved from the sweeping tides by a sea wall.
#2 The Hoo is a unique place that is defined by its watery, peninsular landscape. It has long been defined by its wild and shifting edges.
#3 The Thames Estuary has been designated as a Wetlands of International Importance, and its marshes have been protected by the Ramsar Convention. However, these protections mean little if nobody is willing to honor them.
#4 The language used to describe protected areas is often lacking in vision and enthusiasm, and the lack of a suitable language contributes to the invisibility of certain landscapes.

Sujets

• Interest group (disambiguation)
• Ecotourism

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669358664
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Julian Hoffman's Irreplaceable
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Hoo Peninsula is a rich weave of water and earth at the edge of the Thames Estuary. It’s bordered by two rivers, the Thames to the north and the Medway to the south, and has been preserved from the sweeping tides by a sea wall.

#2

The Hoo is a unique place that is defined by its watery, peninsular landscape. It has long been defined by its wild and shifting edges.

#3

The Thames Estuary has been designated as a Wetlands of International Importance, and its marshes have been protected by the Ramsar Convention. However, these protections mean little if nobody is willing to honor them.

#4

The language used to describe protected areas is often lacking in vision and enthusiasm, and the lack of a suitable language contributes to the invisibility of certain landscapes.

#5

The North Kent Marshes are a magical place that no one knows about. We should be celebrating it, and putting it in the hearts and minds of people.

#6

The Cliffe Airport plan was quashed in 2003, but the three parish councillors were right about other threats looming over their landscape. The idea of an estuary airport hadn’t gone away. In 2008, the possibility of one was revived when Boris Johnson, London’s mayor at the time, called for a feasibility study.

#7

The airport proposal has affected the lives of the Gill family, who have been tireless in raising awareness about it. They’ve regularly traveled alongside local politicians to governmental summits and public consultations, and they’ve persistently canvassed local opinion.

#8

The proposed new airport would be located on the Hoo Peninsula, near London. The peninsula is far from pristine; it has a history of human use that stretches back hundreds of years. The airport would destroy the marshland, which would be replaced by operational buildings and aircraft hangars.

#9

The marshes of north Kent stretch unbroken from Gravesend to the village of Grain on the far side of the Hoo Peninsula. The land swings north with the river, and the coastal curve marks the true beginning of the Hoo Peninsula.

#10

The avocet is a beautiful bird that was driven to extinction in Britain in the nineteenth century. It was adopted as the emblem of the RSPB in 1955, and today, it is represented by the number of pairs of avocets that breed in the UK.

#11

The marsh country is a landscape that has been largely forgotten, and it is there that the orphan Pip encounters Magwitch, who has escaped from one of the prison hulks that were anchored where the marshes join the Thames at Egypt Bay.

#12

The estuary is a beautiful place, and it is shaped by human hand since Roman times. The reclamation of salt marsh behind sea walls, known as inning, can be traced back through historical records to at least the early twelfth century.

#13

The estuary and its surrounding marshland provided food, transport, and opportunities for the peninsular communities that lived in these parishes. The churches in these villages are beautiful, and the villagers would be rehoused in other parts of Kent, severing their physical and emotional ties to this place.

#14

The peninsula has long been known for its open skies and expansive spaces, but what value do these qualities of place carry in this age. What credence is given to open skies, to the ability to experience a place that hasn’t been turned entirely to our convenience.

#15

The London Stone, which stands off the coast of the Isle of Grain, has intrigued me since I first saw it. It is one of two evocative boundary markers on the Thames that once delineated the eastern jurisdiction of the City of London.

#16

Place is a composite of weather, seasons, shared experiences, and livelihoods. It’s shaped by animal paths and the whirl of a bird’s wings. It’s worn and deeply scored with communal histories, songs, and stories that correspond to some region of the human heart.

#17

The London Stone, a marker of the Thames estuary, is a beautiful example of how place can imprint itself on us in an instant. It speaks for generations of men and women who have sailed along the estuary or returned home at its end.

#18

The airport proposal focuses on the importance of hubs, but you can see how connectivity already exists on the Hoo Peninsula. The Friends of the North Kent Marshes and many other residents have come together to protect a sense of home in its widest and most inclusive meaning.

#19

I climbed to the top of the peninsula to see three egrets stitch a white weave into the dark sky. I began to wonder if the Hoo Peninsula was perceived by those who wanted to level the hill I was on as empty and featureless.

#20

The Airports Commission eventually rejected the Thames Estuary proposal from Foster + Partners in 2014, but the threat remains, and there will be a formidable resistance if it ever does come ashore again.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Geoff Driver, who has walked these woods every year since 1947, has seen it change dramatically over the last 68 years. Now, he is trying to raise awareness of what could be lost in Smithy Wood as the result of a coal mine.

#2

The wood was a reflection of local diversity. It was a place for solitary contemplation, dog-walking, talking, birdwatching, and snake-coupling. It was a reflection of local kindness and dry humor.

#3

Smithy Wood was a place that informed the characters of those who lived there, as well as their community. They were witness to its transformations, having undergone their own along the way.

#4

Woodlands were the living heart of Britain, and they were constantly being degraded by the human population. But around the eleventh century, a cultural transformation occurred that changed attitudes towards woodland.

#5

Ancient woods are areas of woodland that have been in existence since 1600, and are thus testimonies to the wood’s native antiquity. They are the result of human interactions with the land, and have allowed a wide variety of wildlife to thrive within them over an extremely long period of time.

#6

The wood was named and noted on maps in the thirteenth century, and was managed as both a coppice wood and wood pasture. It was managed this way as far back as 1161, when the monks of Kirkstead Abbey were granted a monastic grange on nearby Thorpe Common.

#7

The livelihoods of those who worked in the woodsmanship industry were eventually replaced by the availability of coal, oil, plastic, chemicals, and synthetics. However, many of the ancient woods that sustained them are still with us, and they are the living museums of a landscape that has witnessed radical changes.

#8

The proposal to convert an ancient woodland to a motorway service station off the M1 at Junction 35 would destroy half of Smithy Wood’s remaining 20 hectares. The distance between existing services 27½ miles.