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Lifestyle
Into the wilderness
10 April 2013

We need our meadows and oceans to teem with wild creatures. The badger cull is a sign of our broken relationship with the natural world.

Society
The tree of secrets, shadows and scents
26 March 2013

In praise of the magnolia.

Culture
To see a live flamingo is to understand elegance
14 March 2013

Gravity is not just a limitation, but a potential partner in exploring the world.

Culture
Grammar
14 February 2013
Sci-Tech
Don’t be afraid of the big, bad wolf
31 January 2013

We are living without the sense of the shamanic and the transformational that our forebears found vital for survival.

Sci-Tech
Humans don’t make the world go round
29 November 2012

As long as we remain anthropocentric, we harm other animals.

Food and Drink
Tangled up in green
11 October 2012

We seem resigned to losing our green world.

On the vanishing of my sister, aged 3, 1965
30 August 2012
Ideas
Nature: Dark satanic mills
29 August 2012

John Burnside's nature column.

Ideas
Celebrating the animal encounter in poetry
15 August 2012

There is a long tradition of poets celebrating chance encounters with animals, but such meetings are becoming increasingly rare.

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