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00:00It's a lovely little spot this. I don't know if anybody else does call it Llanbatten Beach, but it's all kind of governed by human need as well.
00:29It's a river that's just found its own way. It needs protection just as a human being would. There is that sense of the landscape being, it's a friend, it's a neighbour, it's on the same kind of emotional level as we are.
00:47I've spent a few years working here in the mid-70s. I've been working as a shepherd for, yes, well, the river caused probably more problems than it's solved.
01:01We want to anthropomorphise all the time. It's a way of making nature a little bit more acceptable and less scary.
01:12But there was a body.
01:14We can't resist seeing patterns and pictures.
01:16I think some of the stories are there to make sense of that or to allow us to make sense of it in ourselves, to allow us to be aware of who we are.
01:24You don't tell people what's important about the site. In the autumn of 1986, all the bridges were described.
01:32The site's less likely to be protected one way or another.
01:35The river really needs people to speak on their behalf.
01:38If you really are interested in nature and wildlife, you can never really be bored because there's always something else to learn.
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