“It is as if individual trees with character and rich biographies can continue to have an existence only through the pickling(...)of their unique genetic identity; and that being carried forward by the eddying, unpredictable streams of reproduction, as all other organic life is, would obliterate their authentic essence. As a principle guiding our treatment of nature as a whole this(...)would have stopped life on earth in its tracks.“
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Happy #hyggehourreadathon day to all those who celebrate 🧡 Here‘s to an hour or two of cozy reading in community. #naturalitsy
“I doubt there will ever be definitive answers to these questions. For many under the spell of Taxus this is not a search for the history of the yew, but for a kind of spiritual genealogy, a quest for Avalon, for the deciphering of a symbol that shows how we left the path of natural religion.“
This page is a short summary of the story of the yew, which Mabey talked in more detail throughout this chapter. It's so beautiful written!
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A great selection of titles in the 2025 Climate Fiction Prize longlist. Have you read any? More for the 📚
https://climatefictionprize.co.uk/2025-prize/longlist/
VIII
What do the tall trees say
To the late havocs in the sky?
They sigh.
The air moves, and they sway.
When the breeze on the hill
Is still, then they stand still
They wait.
They have no fear. Their fate
Is faith. Birdsong
is all they‘ve wanted, all along .
——-Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir
I love the title of this poetry collection. It‘s like the trees are singing!
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How are you getting on with our November #buddyread
This image really made me pause. The thought of such a magnificent living tree turned into a dance floor is mind-boggling. 🫣
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#NatureLitsy 2025 #BuddyRead list.
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We have our first snowfall in Derbyshire. ❄️
Seems a good opportunity to remind you of #NaturaLitsy last #buddyread of 2024, Giles Whitwell's Snow - The Secret Life of Snow (2019).
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