‘To love the natural world is to take care of it, to allow it to be free, just as we often wish to be ourselves, and to carefully manage the downsides and difficulties of human exploration.’

Christiana Spens on land access rights in the UK.

‘All at once, it felt nihilistic and misguided. I had been on this extended fast, but it was devoted to absent men and not any real god. As such, there had been no revelation or resolution, no peace.’

Christiana Spens on Lent.