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Posted on August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

“Be Still”, Agnes Hunt RHSM – poem in Glencomeragh, Co Waterford.

  I have posted photos of Glencomeragh in February and photos of Glencomeragh in August. Glencomeragh was a Rosminian retreat centre near Kilsheelan (which is in Tipperary, but Glencomeragh is across the Suir…

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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“Nature and culture have been replaced by landscape and literature”: Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing”, New Statesman, June 2015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 September 12, 2017September 20, 2017

“In Search of Grace” , Peter Reason

Originally posted on James Common:
If, like me, you are an avid consumer of natural history based literature, you will surely love the below extract from Peter Reason’s new book, In…

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Posted on June 5, 2017June 5, 2017

Maren Meinhardt on an urban tree

From the TLS, June 2nd: Outside my window, there is a tree. Even without it, the view is not at all unpleasant: a row of Victorian houses, cars, a skew-whiff…

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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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Posted on January 16, 2016January 16, 2016

Robert MacFarlane’s “Landmarks” and the literature of nature

I should love Robert MacFarlane’s “Landmarks”, but it is proving strangely difficult to get through. Normally I reserve any kind of reviewing judgment on books until I have completely finished…

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