Hearth & Horn

In looking for what humans want it’s always instructive to see what rich people actually get: and so often, that’s a large country house set in a park full of stout trees with an open sward grazed by deer and a lake running right through the middle. That’s the human idea of the good life, and it’s why rich people have created it again and again."

I am not getting on with this author of a Rewilding book at all

Many years ago I lived on the edge of London, just within the M25. And I was filled with a mania for a garden pond. The fact that there was no room in the garden for such a thing was no deterrent at all. Eventually we found a place in which we managed to insert a pond two or three feet square. It was dug and lined and planted with a couple of off-the-shelf water plants and that was it. The cost was tiny, and so was the pond.

Well, good sir, it sounds like you did have space for a pond and could afford one, and what I think you're not understanding is that when most people say "I don't have room for a pond or any money", they aren't being lazy or letting the human world cloud their vision, they genuinely can't.