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Original content copyright © Emma Thompson, Daniel Joyce, Tilly Lunken, Jenny Ngugi, Laline Paull, Ottilie Neser, Kayden Van Veldhoven, Sally Jane Hole, Jem Bendell, Niamh McCarthy, Simon Jay, Agnes Homer, Cate Chapman, Ella Crowley, Liz Darcy Jones, Simon McBurney, Ollie Barnes, Jackie Morris, Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, Tabitha Ravula, Stuart Capstick, Nicola Espitalier Noel, Jessica Taggart Rose, Elliotte Mitchell, Joanna Pocock, Daniela Torres Perez, Tyrone Huggins, Haydon Bushell, Rob Cowen, Christopher Nicholson, Isobel Bruning, Saibh Da Silva, Justin Roughley, Clare Crossman, Mary Benefiel, Jessica Siân, Lindsay Clarke, Veronika Schmidinger, Anna Hope, Blythe Pepino, Jo Baker, Katie Skiffington, Jay Griffiths, Ann Lowe, Polly Higgins, Claire Rousell, Nathan Bindoff, Emma Cameron, Alex Morrison Hoare, Tia Khodabocus, Tamara von Werthern, Bridget McKenzie, Harriet Hulme, Dr Rupert Read, Steve Waters, Molly Wingate, Bob Langton, Eva Geraghty, Kerala Irwin, Mark Rylance, Mairéad Godber, Renato Redentor Constantino, Nivya Stephen, Luke Jackson, Toni Spencer, Ashby Martin, Dr Gail Bradbrook, Hannah Palmer, Marian Greaves, Mike Prior, Minnie Rahman, Tamara Ashley, Casper Taylor, Professor Julia Steinberger, Luca Chantler, Caroline Lucas MP, Megan Murray-Pepper, Silvia Rodriguez, Lilli Hearsey, Trilby Rose, Eve Houston, Fiona Glen, Dulcie Deverell and Edi Rouse, Bishop Rosa dos Santos Bassotto, Farhana Yamin, Claire Rousell, Harkiran S. S. Dhingra
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Source ISBN: 9780008374440
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Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Contents
5 Introduction
6 Dear Reader
7 In the Beginning
8 LOVE
9 Earth
10 In the Climbing Hydrangea of my Neighbour’s Fence
11 Dear Mr Walnut Tree
12 Milk
13 All the Trees
14 But the Greatest of These Is Love
15 Help Me Catch Our World
16 Letter to the Worms
17 Insects
18 I Love You, Earth
19 Now It Is Our Turn
20 Stories of You and I
21 Extinction Redemption
22 A Break Up Poem
23 We Don’t Shop at Waitrose
24 Be Kind
25 I Don’t Know Where I’ve Got This Balance Wrong
26 A Love Letter
27 Oh, Arrogant and Impudent Beloved Child
28 The Act of Naming
29 Everything
30 Everything Is Connected
31 LOSS
32 False Alarm
33 What Have We Done to the Planet?
34 Finding Dory
35 Cruise control
36 We Humans
37 The Act of Incremental Vanishing
38 Dear Animals
39 Nichollsia borealis
40 A Place I Call Home
41 Small Islands Everywhere
42 Why Should We Care?
43 Letter to a Starling
44 A Frog Shrivelled in the Dust
45 A Letter to the Dying
46 I Didn’t Even Know!
47 Amnesia
48 The Night Toby Denied Climate Change
49 The First Earth Day
50 A Letter to the Earth (If It Can Read?)
51 Sorry
52 On an Ancient Carving
53 Patient E
54 Fracture
55 Womb
56 For Aoife
57 Procrastination
58 Letter to an Endling
59 anything
60 EMERGENCE
61 Emergence
62 We Are in the Underworld
63 The Hospital
64 Trusting the Spiral
65 HOPE
66 A Scientist’s Dream
67 The Hawthorn Tree
68 Corrections
69 Thirteen
70 Active Hope
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