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Natural connections: memory and nature by Stephen Moss
It’s only a photograph, but it’s one of my most treasured possessions. It shows a toddler – me, when I was maybe eighteen months old dressed in what can only be described as…
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Some Thoughts on Poetry and Fracking by Hugh Dunkerley
In 2014 I was asked to give a poetry reading at the anti-fracking camp in Balcombe, West Sussex. Thinking about what to read brought into focus issues which, as a poet and…
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The fight for beauty by Fiona Reynolds
“It is very easy to feel gloomy about the Brexit vote. But we are not powerless.”
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The Earth will speak in the long run by Marcus Sedgwick
“Since the land cannot speak for itself, who will speak on its behalf?”
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If Britain becomes Little by Germaine Greer
Will uneconomic farming on marginal lands be a win for wilderness?
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Hobblers Hole by Adam Thorpe
“Our islands are splinters off a massive core to which we also belong”
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Rain Sideways by Paul Evans
“The storm is with us. Standing in the dunes in the indifferent lash of rain sideways feels like being part of a community”
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I Can’t See by Kathleen Jamie
“My relationship with the natural world has been knocked all to hell.”
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“Great God, where is the ship?” by Philip Hoare
Will birds and animals die as a direct result of leaving the EU?
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Uprooted by Robert Macfarlane & Adrian Cooper
Amid the political clamour since the Referendum, no one in power has yet spoken up for nature in the UK.
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Looking for Dream Island: Amy Liptrot
In the footsteps of R.M. Lockley: “I sit on the highest point of the island and see the sea all around.”
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Oliver Rackham – What is the future for ash trees?
I dare not predict what will happen to ash. The recent cycle of Elm Disease is too uncomfortable a precedent. Who would have foreseen in 1970 that 40 years on the geographical…
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