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    Orwell’s Roses

    Oct 20, 2021 3 minutes
    By Rebecca Solnit

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    Rebecca Solnit is a prize-winning author and Guardian journalist, a friend of Robert Macfarlane and part of what I term the environocracy.

    She is keen on persuasion by avoiding moralising, by means of humour with self-awareness. What is her utopia? A place and time ‘when some kind of common humanity and common non-violence becomes the norm’. I was new to her work, but swiftly seduced by her prose, and the way her intellect

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