“They’ve disappeared from the landscape. For decades, like most of us, I didn’t notice. Suddenly, it’s an emergency: hedges need to be replanted. As the daily Libération headlined last September, ‘Everyone wants hedges’. Because their ecological value is immense. But that’s not all.
A hedge is not a wall like any other. As a fence, it’s a limit; as an ecosystem, it brings me closer to another cosmos, to other living species, to another way of being in the world, it opens up a path that leads far away”, writes the author.
Between personal accounts, historical anecdotes and an analysis of the concepts hidden in the brush, Sonia Feertchak draws up a veritable
a veritable philosophy of the bocage.