Writing
We have formed a firm decision that Odysseus has waited long enough. He must go home – The Odyssey...
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The same leap of the spirit carries me up. God or no god, I am fey again – Nan Shepherd Nothing...
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What we may well believe has the power to cut and shape and hollow out the dark form of the world surely...
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I’m thinking of meadows after reading about them. These are the best, they say in The Times, for good...
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There is something about winter which pares all living things down to their essentials – Moya Cannon...
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In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social...
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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it – Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong...
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Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we! – William Shakespeare I watched the Detectorists for the first...
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The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories ― Carl Jung Landscape...
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There is something about winter which pares all living things down to their essentials – Moya Cannon,...
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It can stay silent a lifetime. Who knows anyway what it is, that wild, silky part of ourselves without...
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But now and then comes an hour when the silence is all but absolute, and listening to it one slips out of time...
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There’s an idea about nature we might call encounter. We encounter it, without complete understanding....
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There are many ways I like the outdoors and walking. High mountain treks, camping wild and on camp sites,...
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It sometimes happened this way, that the animal was born knowing it was in the wrong place, that its body...
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Edale was the first Peak District area I knew. Initially with a post card, then for my first trip. The picture...
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Surely if wind can, if rain can. But which cannot be held never be held and is no flower – Cormac McCarthy...
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Do I dare Disturb the universe? – T.S. Eliot There’s a little known Canadian film called I’ve...
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Another way critics have of describing nature writing is to call it the literature of place – Barry...
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Then spoke the thunder – T.S. Eliot Religions don’t interest me but philosophy does. Not so much...
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Creatures, I give you yourselves, said the strong, happy voice of Aslan – C.S. Lewis “It’s beautiful...
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Of all seasons autumn has most effect on me. I love spring and summer with the flowers and big warm days....
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It is only by going off the track that you get to know the country – E.M. Forster Ideologies, like...
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They’ve made it again, Which means the globe’s still working, the Creation’s Still waking refreshed,...
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