You cannot manufacture intimacy with nature. You have to earn it through boredom. A painter can work in a warm studio; a wildlife artist sits in a rain-soaked hide for 14 hours, smelling like mud and insect repellent, watching a single pond.
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Iconic images of melting ice caps or orphaned rhinos have done more for environmental policy than thousands of pages of raw data. You cannot manufacture intimacy with nature