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To all those engineers, digger-drivers and farmers who are taking nature conservation seriously.

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HOTSPUR. See how this river comes me cranking in,

And cuts me from the best of all my land

A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.

I’ll have the current in this place damm’d up,

And here the smug and silver Trent shall run

In a new channel, fair and evenly;

It shall not wind with such a deep indent

To rob me of so rich a bottom here.

GLENDOWER. Not wind! It shall, it must; you see it doth.

SHAKESPEARE, I Henry IV, III. i.