Extinct in Ireland, September 13th – Lapidary snail, Heligonica lapicida
Included in Red List No. 2, Non Marine Molluscs as extinct, albeit perhaps in this case its presence in Ireland in the first is debated: Known in Ireland only from limestone…
Tag: life
Simon Jacobson on “honouring thy father and thy mother”
The commandment to “honour thy father and thy mother” is one that, one would like to hope, is usually relatively straightforward. Many of us (most of us?) can fairly easily…
From “The Nature of Autumn” by Jim Crumley
From an extract published here Leaves must produce food out of thin air, or else there is no tree. Luckily for nature and all of us, they are extraordinarily good…
Séamus Sweeney 