Tenemos múltiples ejemplos de lo bien que le viene a la naturaleza que la dejemos tranquila, sin obsesión de "domesticarla" Muchos en "Islas del abandono" @calflyn.bsky.social @capitanswing.bsky.social capitanswing.com/libros/islas... o el ejemplo de #Chornobyl theconversation.com/visitamos-la...

I can't wait to chat with Alex Riley and @calflyn.bsky.social about Nature's genius for resilience and transformation, as part of @edbookfest.bsky.social! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Today's @theguardian.com country diary by @calflyn.bsky.social is a fascinating exploration of bog iron and the creation of bacterial blooms. #countrydiary #naturewriting

Loved this. "I made a vow to read one volume of the Penguin Little Black Classics each morning in bed, matins, for a hundred days." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I had a lovely time talking about Proust with @calflyn.bsky.social at “Five Books.” Hard to do justice to 3,000 pages in a short conversation, but we gave it our best shot! fivebooks.com/best-books/m...

One week until Nature's Genius is out! Huge thanks to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, @calflyn.bsky.social & Isabella Tree for their kind words. I'll be doing events in Glasgow, Brighton, London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds & St Andrews - come and say hello! Tix here: buythebook.online/natures-genius

My #favouritereads recently: - Judith Schalansky - Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands - Audrey Magee - The Colony - @calflyn.bsky.social - Islands of Abandonment - Marie Howe - What the Earth Seemed to Say - Anna Funder - Wifedom What have you read that you've loved recently? #booksonbluesky

It's here! Nature's Genius is out on 8 May - available to pre-order now. Thanks to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, @wanderinggaia.bsky.social, @calflyn.bsky.social, @casparhenderson.bsky.social, Charles Forster and Isabella Tree for some wonderful quotes!

Simply have not been able to stop thinking about this Agnes's Callard essay since I first read it. Against travel: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

🥳 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thought you might enjoy this archive photograph of the Cape Reclus refuge, Danco Coast, Antarctica. Built in 1956, a small party of surveyors overwintered there in close quarters the following year. Think of the endless night, the freezing fog, the slowly revolving icebergs in the bay

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

It was a pleasure to chat to Zeinab Badawi about why we should be reading more books about African history written by African writers for @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

Im a big fan of Christopher Hänsli's Mortadella—in which every slice of a mortadella sausage has been painstakingly painted (front and back) with commentary from John Berger on "the slow changing tenderpink constellations" www.editionpatrickfrey.com/en/books/mor...

Came across the concept of the 'florilegium'—a visual catalogue of the plants growing in a specific garden. I thought you might enjoy these intricate and beautifully composed botanical engravings from Basilius Besler's Hortus Eystettensis (The Eichstätt Garden), 1613

This is lovely & quite aside from the mention of Islands of Abandonment has lots of great book recommendations!

Made a list of new nonfiction books to look out for this spring:

'The first, tackling the sunk-cost problem and political short-termism, is long-term planning: making “bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they have reached crisis proportions”.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...