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New Humanist essay: In Search Of The ‘Nature Cure’

We have always believed in the healing power of our natural landscape, one way or another – but has it been overstated?

Dark Mountain essay: Telling The Devil’s Tales

How are we to novelise the sixth great extinction?

The Author essay: The Opposite Of Not Funny

Whatever humanity is, I think humour is at the heart of it.

Geographical review: ‘Working With Nature: Saving And Using The World’s Wild Places’, Jeremy Purseglove (Profile, 2019)

The central message of this book, Jeremy Purseglove writes, is that ‘we may nibble away at the planet, but we cannot afford to swallow the lot’.

The Guardian Country Diary: a small wild place by the side of the canal

As we slosh through a wet summer it’s good to spend a little time reflecting on water as a vibrant and vivifying thing.

Review: ‘Landfill’, Tim Dee (Little Toller, 2018)

This is a book about gulls, but it’s a good deal else, too: it’s an exploration of waste, a rummaging, bent double and elbows-deep, in human detritus.

Country Diary: golden plovers shine, even in the winter

Until the flock tilts towards the just-risen sun, I’m not sure what I’m watching, over the arable fields that abut the seashore here.

New Humanist essay: The Cult Of Nature Writing

They are haunted by visions. They are visited by strange dreams. They are the nature writers, and they bring us wisdom from the wilderness.

The Author essay: The Paradox Of Tragedy

Maybe, if we cry at books, we cry because we just don’t know what else to do.

books, reading, writing

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