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“There are boundaries in nature. There are rivers, forests, escarpments, ravines and mountain ranges; there are cellulose walls. But these boundaries are in fact areas of transaction, semi-permeable membranes. The notion that a perimeter should be impenetrable is a human contrivance alone.”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

“You must work for a living,’ proclaim the nobility (from the chaise longue).”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

“Women who do not ask for permission are powerful.”
― Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

“only a year after the outbreak of plague Edward III enacted the Ordinance of Labourers, which sought to cap wage increases and curb this new-found mobility. With its extra stipulation that any beggar who was deemed able to work should be refused charity, it is also the first time in English law that we see the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor, a pathological obsession of the English that lasts to this day.”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us