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Posted on August 27, 2018

A prayer of gratitude for creation – Fiona Murdoch, Eco-Congregation Ireland

On the Irish Franciscan’s Praying Nature page,  there is a section of “eco prayers”: A Franciscan presence and spirit requires living a way of life that cherishes Gospel values as St. Francis…

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Posted on August 13, 2018August 12, 2018

“Green Fire – Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic For Our Time”

Aldo Leopold died of a heart attack while battling a fire on a neighbour’s property on April 21, 1948. He is one of those literary figures better known and much…

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Posted on August 2, 2018July 27, 2018

“it is the August-blooming ling that covers the hills with amethyst”

from “The Living Mountain” by Nan Shepherd (previous Nan Shepherd posts here  and here: Lower on the mountain, on all the slopes and shoulders and ridges and on the moors below, the…

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Posted on July 3, 2018

“Carbon dioxide should be regarded the same way we view other waste products” – Klaus Lackner and changing minds on carbon

This Elizabeth Kolbert article from the New Yorker on carbon capture is a few months old, but still well worth reading. It is sobering to read how many of the…

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Posted on November 4, 2017November 4, 2017

“Nature and culture have been replaced by landscape and literature”: Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing”, New Statesman, June 2015

I have previously cited this essay by Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing” as exemplified by Robert Macfarlane and Helen McDonald. Have been re-reading it and find, as often…

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Posted on October 11, 2016

More thoughts on forest bathing

I have posted before on “forest bathing”; the first post being perhaps a little over-critical of the potential for over-therapeutising what is essentially an attentive walk in the woods, the the second more…

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