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The right track

THE real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes,’ wrote Marcel Proust. On the 20th anniversary of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, the Right to Roam group organised Arts figures to lobby the Prime). They cite the benefits to national health and the unfairness of one in eight households having no garden, as well as the baffling statement that love for Nature ‘is actively discouraged by the law’ in England.

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