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landscape and I get on together well though I'm the talkative one still she can tell her symptoms of being to me the way a shell murmurs of oceans this poem is by Norman McCaig he speaks of Shahalian he pictures the mountain as something sentient with needs shahalian in my mind is more than a mountain, he writes.

Thank you for listening to this podcast. I'm Maud Start, and like so many others before me,

I travelled to the Caledonian Fairy Mountain and came back inspired. Inspired by the mountain,

certainly, but also by the group that I met whilst there. Some might call them nature spirits.

Others know them as Isabel Fyler or Izzy, who worked with the John Muir Trust and Joanna Gibbons and

Neil Davidson, landscape architects working for London-based firm J.L. Gibbons. So not nature spirits

in the traditional sense. They've come together in a quest to re-establish the natural montane scrub habitat of the Caledonian Fairy Mountain,

drawing in community, collecting seeds and planting out saplings, with an infectious maternal care for the growth on the mountainside.

Together, under the banner of landscape learn,

they shared with me how through careful experimentation,

they're listening to the needs of the mountain

and helping it back to health.

So this is some of the first tree planting that we did on the site at Shalian.

So this one was probably planted in 2018.

It's a downy birch tree and we planted about 10,000 trees in 2018 and 19,

all with volunteers, which, yeah, I thought it was a pretty good effort to be honest.

And this is it thriving, not jumped on by deer?

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