The freedom to roam, or everyman's right is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land for recreation and exercise. The right is sometimes called the right of public access to the wilderness or the right to roam.
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“the child unlucky in his little State,
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A hive whose honey is fear and worry,
Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape;”
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