Category: General
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The shadow and the landscape; notes on the nature of experience
Autumn is the best time to play hide-and-seek: it smudges the edges of the world. The space between the parenthesis of dawn and dusk is barely daylight, more a leaf-strewn, muddy puddle, a tree-bare, bonfire-smoke-poem. The distinction between object and background is confused. A boon to the hider, but a nightmare for the seeker. We…
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More Belties, and my Autumn Urges!
New Belties On saturday, as we were heading out up to the Smoke to visit Jake and Zara for dinner, we were held up by the arrival of another fourteen belted galloway cows to their winter layback land in the valley. All of a sudden the lower fields were alive with a herd of cattle;…
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For All The Cows…
This weekend seven beautiful belted galloways turned up in the fields around Deer Path Cottage. to spend the winter, with 13 more on the way. The seven just arrived are Fi’s girls that have been doing a fantastic job grazing out on the heath she managages for Surrey Wildlife Trust. But it was time to…
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Nagoya Unedited Outcomes
Convention on Biological Diversity COP10 (NAGOYA) Advance Unedited Outcomes http://www.cbd.int/nagoya/outcomes
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The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared to the mountain, the nearer we come too participating in its greatness. I do not know why this is so. ~ Arne Naess
Well, Kilimanjaro over and done with I’m dumping the old Blogger blog in favour of something new. On this blog I’m going to be posting items of interest to me, and hopefully to you about ecology, conservation, endangered species, general wildlife, ecophilosopy, nature writing and probably a lot of other things too. You’ll eventually find…
James T Jones 