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The Language of Trees Katie Holten

Katie Holten — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 08:47:14 +0000

When I feel overwhelmed by what we’ve caused—biodiversity loss, climate change, ecocide, hunger, migration, pandemics, poverty, war—I find solace in the beauty of the living world, especially in trees. Trees are truthful. They fill me with joy. The simplicity and quiet wonder of trees, whether alone on a city footpath or together in a [...]

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SPRINGWATCH AS GREEK DRAMAverity healey

verity healey — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:21:55 +0000

People need drama, they need wildness, and they need nature. And the BBC’s Springwatch provides it all. Set over an hour an evening four nights a week for three weeks in May in the UK, Springwatch transmits live from a variety of locations where wildlife scientists give scientific insight into the soap opera-like goings on [...]

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ParchedSandy Winterbottom

Sandy Winterbottom — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:32:58 +0000

June already and a full moon. I take my tea to the top of the garden where I can look out across the hills. It’s been a cold spring and in our small glen these early mornings are still dewy. Cool enough for a thick jumper, fresh enough to clear my head. Everywhere is [...]

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Roe StagPascale Petit

Pascale Petit — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:00:37 +0000

Tell me there is a meadow, afterwards, that the roe stag will come to the top of my garden, that the window will cut me with glass blades of dewy hooves. That I’ll lay out my doe mask, my necklace of icicles, onto the deep windowsill. Tell me the stag will be [...]

Excerpt from The European EelSteve Ely

Steve Ely — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:00:27 +0000

20 degrees north, 62 west. The outer rise of the Puerto Rico Trench, a hundred miles north of Anguilla. New Moon, 1% visible. Kraken darkness, lit only by octopus phosphorescence and the bright detonations of ejaculating eels. They’ve been travelling in tandem for five days now, through frittering flames of fertilised ova and the disarticulate, [...]

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Barn Owls in SuffolkSeán Hewitt

Séan Hewitt — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:00:16 +0000

I watch them for a long while, the pair rising and courting the field in daylight, the strange geometry of their faces funneling the air, and everything – their whiteness, their sense of having slipped through from another world, their focus on the hunt – in the end it all comes down to [...]

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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Tyson Yunkaporta

XR Writers Rebel — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:11:57 +0000

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The Overstory | Richard Powers

XR Writers Rebel — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:45:06 +0000

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After Ithaca | Charlotte Du Cann

Katie Percival — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:23:28 +0000

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