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Books (The Lost Words, The Old Ways, Landmarks, The Wild Places) Films (Mountain) Essays (Guardian, New Yorker) New book Underland underway. Fellow, Cambridge.

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Geregistreerd in februari 2017
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    Word of the day: "thalassophile" - a lover of the sea; someone who is powerfully drawn to & by the ocean. From the Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”), and φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).

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    “Indigenous people are now widely recognized as some of the best defenders of nature after decades of being sidelined”

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  3. 28 jun.

    The Willowherb Review is a new online literary journal just launched by to encourage and champion diverse voices in nature writing. Yes! A Kickstarter is underway to fund the first issue. I’ve just supported. More here:

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    23 jun.

    "For future readers, then, the true crime of our age won’t be denial. It will be indifference": challenging essay on William Vollmann's new Carbon Ideologies, "an elegy to our damned epoch that’s also a work of enlightenment & education":

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  5. 28 jun.

    Word of the day: “sea-raven” - common name for the cormorant (the word is from the Latin “corvus marīnus”, “sea-crow”); also “water-buzzard”. Cormorants are often seen standing cruciform on rocks or snags, wings held out to dry in the sun.

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  6. 27 jun.

    "Bedompig" (Afrikaans), "squelstring" & "unketty" (Exmoor), "afoso" (Italian), "drukkend" (Dutch), "drymllyd" (Welsh), "lummert" (Norwegian)...thanks for this thread of hundreds of words, many of them onomatopoeic, from dozens of languages for muggy/mugginess.

    Word of the day: "muggy" - stiflingly warm, oppressively humid & close. Prob from Old Icelandic "mugga", meaning mist, dampness. In Japanese, 蒸し暑い 'mushi atsui' ('steaming hot'). What other words in other languages are there for muggy/mugginess?
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  7. 27 jun.

    These statistics can easily lose their force, so it is worth re-stating: "One football pitch of forest was lost every second in 2017". Every *second* of the year. Global deforestation is on an upwards trend. Details & analysis here:

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  8. 27 jun.

    "Mosses and other small beings issue an invitation to dwell for a time right at the limits of ordinary perception....Learning to see mosses is more like listening than looking. A cursory glance will not do it." (Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss)

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  9. 27 jun.

    Much more to follow on this soon, but for now...save the date! 22nd September, London, The People's Walk For Wildlife. Time at last to take & make action for biodiversity & the natural world in this country. Details below:

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    Save the date ! Join me on 22nd September in central London for the first People's Walk for Wildlife . It's time for us to act . More details and full video here :
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  10. 27 jun.

    “Everyone has a story to tell”: today is , with events & initiatives happening around the country. You can download free writing prompts, workshop plans, posters, teaching resources & more to help you get writing:

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  11. 27 jun.

    Word of the day: "muggy" - stiflingly warm, oppressively humid & close. Prob from Old Icelandic "mugga", meaning mist, dampness. In Japanese, 蒸し暑い 'mushi atsui' ('steaming hot'). What other words in other languages are there for muggy/mugginess?

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  12. 26 jun.

    Word of the day: “oneiric” - dream-like, wraithish. From the Ancient Greek ὄνειρος, dream. Thus also “oneirodynia”, meaning disturbed sleep, including that in which nightmares & sleepwalking occur & intense dreamscapes are traversed.

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  13. 25 jun.

    Government today plans to expand Heathrow. Oil & coal-fired power stations receive more than £3bn in subsidies. But - UK solar power growth halves for the second year running. Government today rejects plans for Swansea's tidal lagoon project.

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    24 jun.

    Paths are the habits of a landscape, marks of customary journeys made over time, by many. 2000-year-old chalk trackway, smell of burnt earth, grasshopper dirge, insect hum from verge and hedge, now.

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  15. 25 jun.

    "The natural world is deeply woven into Thoreau’s writing, as it was in his life. His work returns at key moments to a mysticism that is not ethereal but material": essay on Henry David Thoreau's durable radicalism. Such a last line.

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  16. 25 jun.

    Word(s) of the day: “simmer dim” - the endless twilight of days around the summer solstice, when true dark never falls (lit. summer-dusk; Shetland & Orkney) In Scandinavia, this/these are known as the “white nights”; are there other terms in other languages?

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  17. 24 jun.

    ICYMI: a reading group of Sebald's The Rings of Saturn will be running here from 9 July to 2 Aug. I'll post questions every day or two. Find a copy in your language; I'll use Michael Hulse's fine trans. Discussions underway here & via hashtags. Join us!

    Question: I'm thinking this summer of running a Twitter reading group of WG Sebald's great, haunting 1995 work The Rings of Saturn, a book I've taught, walked & thought about more than any other. Share & shout if you'd be interested in joining? Hashtag wd be
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  18. 24 jun.

    Standing up to racism: “We must unite to halt the rise of the far-right” - Sign the Petition! via

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    22 jun.

    "An estimated 110,000 finches have been caught by [Maltese] hunters since 2014, along with many other wild birds such as song thrushes and golden plovers." Well done & the European court for moving to close down this slaughter.

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  20. 24 jun.

    Paths are the habits of a landscape, marks of customary journeys made over time, by many. 2000-year-old chalk trackway, smell of burnt earth, grasshopper dirge, insect hum from verge and hedge, now.

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