‘Our fate rests on efforts like this’:
the family restoring precious rainforest to its former glory -

“A rainforest’s #silences are a polyphony of subtle, ceaseless, scintillating noises. A humid wet chaos of activity.

The #scented wind is alive, complex, mouldy and sweet, earthy, varietal: an evolutionary vintage. Distillations of #ancient plants embody the living history of living plants.

Three hundred million years ago – and beyond – a bridge formed between reality and magic, potent with memories that go deep in time, like dreams hardwired into grey matter.”

Extract from ‘Cloud Land – The dramatic story of Australia’s extraordinary rainforest people and country’, by Penny van Oosterzee, published by Allen & Unwin
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/05/our-fate-rests-on-efforts-like-this-the-family-restoring-precious-rainforest-to-its-former-glory

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