Summary of George Monbiot's Regenesis

By IRB Media

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#1 The author’s orchard in England is a wonderful place for fruit, but a terrible place for growing it. The trees are blighted by late frosts, which kill the flowers and the trees’ budding fruit.

#2 The English have a long history of allotment gardening, which is when local governments grant land to people to cultivate vegetables and fruit. The practice inadvertently spread anarchy, as it created thousands of self-organized, self-governing communities.

#3 The orchard is the living calendar that marks my year. It is the place where I spend most of my time. I have brought in three other families, creating a miniature commons within a commons.

#4 I love pruning trees. It has become an end in itself, as much sculpture as management. When you have completed the big, structural cuts, you trim the remaining twigs back to a bud that points in the direction you want the new growth to follow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350012736

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author’s orchard in England is a wonderful place for fruit, but a terrible place for growing it. The trees are blighted by late frosts, which kill the flowers and the trees’ budding fruit.

#2

The English have a long history of allotment gardening, which is when local governments grant land to people to cultivate vegetables and fruit. The practice inadvertently spread anarchy, as it created thousands of self-organized, self-governing communities.

#3

The orchard is the living calendar that marks my year. It is the place where I spend most of my time. I have brought in three other families, creating a miniature commons within a commons.

#4

I love pruning trees. It has become an end in itself, as much sculpture as management. When you have completed the big, structural cuts, you trim the remaining twigs back to a bud that points in the direction you want the new growth to follow.

#5

I have explored woodlands, rainforests, savannas, grasslands, rivers, ponds, and marshes, but I have never explored the ground beneath my feet.

#6

I have spent over half a century immersed in the living world, but I have failed to explore the ecosystem that underlies so many others. I have spent thirty years growing food, but I have neglected the substrate that provides it.

#7

England is a depressing place to be a naturalist, I thought. But I was wrong. The soil beneath a square meter of the orchard may contain many thousands of animals, ranging across thousands of species.

#8

I find a springtail, a tiny olive-colored creature that looks like an insect. They are the first organism I see beneath the soil’s surface. I find an ant, and follow it to find a white crustacean that looks like an ant woodlouse.

#9

I found a half million nematode worms per square meter, which are even more abundant than springtails. I saw long, low animals that looked like flying horses, and tiny white centipedes.

#10

A phylum is a large group of animals that