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This exquisite, contemplative book is for anyone who has ever wondered where they fit in the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this funny, provocative and profoundly moving book, Jane Rawson brilliantly unravels the myths about the boundaries of the human and the non-human, the natural and the unnatural, and love and death that shape our thinking about not just the environment, but our history and the future that is already overtaking us. Read it: it's utterly marvellous.\u003c\/b\u003e - James Bradley, author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIdiosyncratic and wily, big-hearted and brave, \u003ci\u003eHuman\/Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhilarating deep dive into what is deemed \"nature\", what is worth saving, and who gets to decide. 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