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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Steven Morris

Life of Exmoor nature writer Hope Bourne recognised with exhibition

Hope in her old age, stood on a country lane, holding a walking stick, smiling at the camera
‘She lived very lightly on the earth’: a new exhibition is dedicated to the little known nature writer Hope Bourne. Photograph: Mark J Rattenbury

She was considered an eccentric by some, eking out a frugal existence on a wild English moor, surviving off the land and exchanging her sketches of the countryside for meals.

But the first museum exhibition on the life and work of the largely forgotten nature writer and artist Hope Bourne highlights that her views on the environment, recycling, access to the countryside – even rewilding – were ahead of her time.

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