At age 6, like many boys in London during the Blitz, he was sent away to a boarding school in the country; there, his fears of abandonment were made worse by the bullying of older boys and brutal beatings at the hands of a sadistic headmaster.
Increased residential infill, the removal of landscape elements for improved agricultural production and rewilding due to agricultural abandonment were simulated.
In each site, samples from a chronosequence of land abandonment were size fractionated, yielding three fractions with increasing degrees of carbon stability (coarse, intermediate, fine).
We observed that changes in soil properties after cropland abandonment were limited, even if afforestation practices were carried out, and no differences were observed between natural succession and afforestation.
Rice-field intensification and abandonment were not completely segregated spatially: intensification occurred in both plain and hilly areas surrounded by forests, while abandonment tended to occur in hilly areas.
When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.
