‘Wilderness has many definitions but, at its heart, it is the absence of human impact and the primacy of nature. For me, the wilderness of Alladale represented the crowning moment of a 57 day walk I did in 2022 from the English Channel to Cape Wrath. To walk that long valley north-eastwards from Deanich, to see the eagles, hear the river and feel the history, was to understand for a while my proper insignificance on the landscape. That feeling leads to humility, and humility is the emotion that starts us on the journey of looking after what we still have, and starting to restore what should never have disappeared in the first place. That’s the genius of Alladale: in restoring nature, we find ourselves restored.’
Roger Morgan-Grenville Conservationist Author of Across a Waking Land
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