Imagine the things Vietnam’s 200-year-old turtles have seen
And who are we, in the minds of those creatures?
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Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage is the UK’s poet laureate. He writes a monthly nature column for the New Statesman.
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My dad tells me I wanted to be a bus driver when I was little, even though he warned…
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The exhibition turned me from a grumpy old man into a weeping 15-year-old boy.
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