We all know the proverb ‘good fences make good neighbours’.
For many that might mean the higher and more impenetrable the better, but E Rogers warned in his 1640 letter that first gave life to the idea “but let vs (us) take heed that we make not a high stone wall to keep vs from meeting’.
I know he probably had people in mind when he penned the ‘good fences’ warning later reinforced in Robert Frost’s 1914 poem ‘Mending Wall’. But with biodiversity in massive decline, we should be considering neighbours of every species.
