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Woodland

In this episode, JC delves into the contradictions in our relationship with woodlands, and explores different ways we can think about them, if we are to use and protect them more wisely.

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Seeds for the future

Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: an Argentine Republic exhibit on forestry. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a Brazilian exhibit on forestry featuring a shelter made of logs. Photograph, 1904.
  • Labourers felling trees and moving the trunks on the side of a mountain. Engraving by Giovanni Volpato after Marco Ricci.
  • Culverden Estate, Tunbridge Wells, Kent: eight sketches showing the buildings of Culverden. Lithograph after G.E. Brooks.
  • Three men in a wood, a scene from Molière's play Le médecin malgré luy. Etching after Molière.
  • Three men in a wood, a scene from Molière's play Le médecin malgré luy. Engraving after Molière.
  • Alcasto in an enchanted forest, facing a castle defended by dragons and demons. Etching by P. Sandby and E. Rooker after J. Collins, ca. 1760.
  • Tree-ferns in an Australian forest with two hunters in the distance. Engraving by E. Brandard, c. 1873, after N. Chevalier.
  • Sakuntalā writing a letter on a leaf in a daydream with two others. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Three men in a wood, a scene from Molière's play Le médecin malgré luy. Engraving after J.B. Molière.
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