2008-05-07 Britain's answer to Aldo Leopold

This book is fantastic! The author talks us through his personel philosophy of nature and its importance to humans. The examples range from the exotic (Zambia) to the very local (birds seen from his garden). It is a very convincing thesis. We need the wild! Not at all preachy - this book tries to convert by example - not by threat. Most important of all is its note of optimism rather than doom and gloom that so often permeates environmental books today.