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Paperboats Zine

The urge to explore and celebrate all the kinds of lives of Planet Earth is stronger than ever, but the environmental and ecological crisis demands we also lift our eyes, and our voices, to species extinction and habitat loss, to what is happening to the forests and hills, the rivers and seas, our streets and gardens. The writer’s instinct to pay attention has never been more vital. Literature can help us to see the natural world – and our place in it – differently.

Margaret Elphinstone

Autumn trees in orange and russet. Sun glinting through the branches behind them.

Time Seeds

The final chapter will remain unread.
Quite soon I must return this thrilling book
to its cosmic shelf.

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