Editing Black Heath (section)

=== The Irony ===
Black Heath may be one of the most genuinely extraordinary places in the entire River [1]. A continent-spanning intelligence with millennia of geological memory, capable of cooperation, deception, and strategic thought on timescales that dwarf human planning [1]. A symbiotic relationship between a human population and a living world that has no parallel anywhere in the known spheres [1]. An ecology that has successfully resisted every attempt at conquest — not through violence, but by simply refusing to be conquered [1].

The Canmore cannot see this because it does not look like what they value [1]. The forest does not care about being appreciated by kings [1]. It was there before them [1]. It will be there after [1].