• How much would you pay NOT to visit a Nature Reserve?

    My  assumption is that visitors attending nature reserves cause damage and disturbance, no matter how lightly they tread. So, how much would you pay not to visit one? Would it be enough just to know it was there doing what it does, but better for your absence. Many of us already pay for the conservation of…

  • Its snowing and I’m thinking of Thomas Hardy (amongst other things)

    December 9 2010 I’m trapped in a snowglobe awaiting the shake that will turn the morning on its head and bring the next blizzard blasting through the valley. Or that’s what It feels like from my vanatge point perched on the upper step of the wooden style between woodland and field on my morning walk…

  • Emergence

    I am the organisation of ants I am the shoaling of fish I am the pack instinct of wolves I am the decay on the floor of the rainforest I am predation I am mycorrhizal fungi I am the breaking of mountains I am the north-westerly wind I am soil formation I am more than…

  • 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…

  • “A New Era for Wolves and People” Book Review

     A New Era for Wolves and People-Review Click on Book Reviews Tab to Buy form Amazon