Henry Williamson on Curlews: From “Tarka the Otter”
From Tarka the Otter Within the moor is the Forest, a region high and treeless, where sedge grasses grow on the slopes to the sky. In early summer the wild…
Tag: silent birdsong
Happy World Listening Day!
It is World Listening Day. I am a bit leery of too many confected “Days” However, anything that encourages listening is itself to be encouraged. From the World Listening Project…
Gordon Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence, and the Philosophy of Silence
It is good to see Gordon Hempton and the One Square Inch of Silence project getting some coverage. Hempton’s book is much the best of the series of search-for-silence books which…
Hesuchia – “we strive in order to be at rest”
My last few posts raised the risk that this blog would turn into a series of quotes from Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” (a book I am well aware has many critics) – so now…
An eerie silence in the garden.
Early today I saw a rustle in the patch of grass in the middle of the garden, and a cat emerged, lethargically fleeing. Probably not coincidentally, there were far fewer…
Séamus Sweeney 