steepholm

I agree with some others here that we need to acknowledge the wrongs of the past but accept we live in the world we do now. But this makes the hedgerow example complicated to me, because we're still continually making land use decisions all around the world. Implying that beauty is worth dispossessing people for is very much an issue at the moment in some countries. So while I think it's OK to admire hedgerows because the dispossession happened so long ago (I pat my local one fondly as I pass by most days) calling them a sacrament ignores the price of their creation, and implies to me that it's OK to focus on the aesthetic value above other concerns.