#nature (11 links)
- Everything You Know About Lightning Safety in the Backcountry Is Wrong outsideonline.com
- What's a 'chuggypig'? Robert Macfarlane’s word search theguardian.com
Some of the letters and cards that were sent to Robert Macfarlane A few days after Landmarks was published last spring, the first postcard arrived. It was of…
When the robin was voted the UK’s national bird last month, we chose to celebrate half of a broken relationship. The robin evolved to make use of wild boar,…
- The limits of nature writing | TLS the-tls.co.uk
RICHARD SMYTH Does too much modern nature writing bear ‘the smudges of the writers’ desperate groping for the mot juste ’? A Northern goshawk (Accipiter…
- Robert Macfarlane on filming in Essex theguardian.com
What is required, therefore (and what is difficult to effect), is the translation of these impulses of wonder and joy at nature, into ecologically valuable patterns of behaviour. Into changed patterns of purchase, consumption, disposal, and travel. Into a shifted sense of the universal. We need, for instance, to retire our medieval vision of the skies, seas, rivers and soil as sinks of infinite capacity; free in what they give, and limitless in their capacity to absorb what we discard into them.
Took ages to get to this but was well worth the wait. Superb.
Via blech.
- The RSPB: Marazion Marsh rspb.org.uk
Overlooks the beautiful St Michael's Mount and boasts Cornwall's largest reedbed. More than 250 bird, 500 plant, 500 insect and 18 mammal species have been recorded here and bitterns are now regular winter visitors (although patience is required to see them).
- London Wildweb wildweb.london.gov.uk
London has many important nature areas bursting with wildlife. This site helps you to find out where they are, what you may see, how to get there, and why they are vital to the capital's biodiversity.