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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

      Cover design by Jack Smythe

      Swallow illustration by Jakie Morris

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      Source ISBN: 9780008374440

      eBook Edition © November 2019 ISBN: 9780008374457

      Version: 2020-01-02

      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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