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ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROAM: Making nature accessible to everyone

Reasons Revisited

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We've Just Been Born With That Fence Around the River

Common lands effectively used to be the welfare state before a welfare state was necessary. William the conqueror came along and decided that he needed huge swathes of land,. obasically, to breed deer so that him and his chums could hunt them for pastime. So you no longer had the right to ist of your local natural resource. You were forcibly expelled. And evicted from nature. As time went on, that became ratified by a new kind of profession of land surveyors and lawyers. Suddenly the land became a commodity and not a resource. It became more of an investment. But these days, we've just been born into a it where, effectively we've forgotten

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