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“Walter Scott and the Matter of Landscape: Ecologies of Violence” in The Bottle Imp Issue 16, 2014.
Essex University’s MA in Wild Writing: Literature and the Environment
Talk at Casper, Wyoming.
Talk at UW, Casper.
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Seeing beyond the Sandhill Cranes: a trip from Eastern Wyoming into Nebraska.
A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place . . . . The cranes stand, as it were, upon the sodden pages of their own history. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). On … Continue reading
Posted in American West, Birds and Animals, Environment and walking, environmental aesthetics, land ethics, Nature writing, Nebraska, Poetry and Essays, Uncategorized, Wyoming
Tagged ecology, environment, landscape, nature, plants, Sandhill cranes, University of Essex, Vedauwoo, Wildflowers, Wyoming
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Ice thoughts
This post is concerned with visual aesthetics, so I’m not adding many words. The photos were taken over Greenland and Northern Canada. The spectacle of ice is impressive, freeze-framing a weird beauty. A language of ratios: the proportion of water … Continue reading
Wild flower meadow at Abbotsford. More soon. . .
Walking Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford estate this afternoon with ranger Philip Munro. Wild flowers and grasses in profusion. Blogpost to follow soon. . .
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Wildflower thoughts . . .
Wildflower meadow and nature corridor, Wivenhoe Park, University of Essex OED definitions: Wildflower. Not listed. A search returns “wildering” as the nearest approximation, meaning “Leading or driving one astray.” Wildlife: “The native fauna and flora of a particular region.” Wildlife … Continue reading
Sculptured Coast
Holding back the tide: stone and wooden sea defences at East Lane, Suffolk. A friend visiting from California had been reading W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, so we went for a day visiting places on the Suffolk coast. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, East Anglia, Ecology, Environment and walking, Nature writing, Ruins, Suffolk
Tagged Aldeburgh, Bawdsey, Coastal, Dunwich, East Anglian arts scene, modern British sculptures, Orfordness, Snape
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Titanomachia . . . in response to Urban Dreamcatchers
Originally posted on Murdo Eason – From Hill to Sea:
. Picking up the signals – spectral transmissions from the agora of public dreaming . Now playing: Charlemagne Palestine + Tony Conrad – An Aural Symbiotic Mystery
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Wild things. Flowers of the Scottish / English border.
Grasses and wildflowers on the Scottish / English border. Photo from my recent visit to Scotland. Blogpost to follow . . . .
Posted in Ecology, Environment and walking, Nature writing, Scotland
Tagged grasses, Scottish border, Wildflowers
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City of Trees: Boise, Idaho and an Urban Natural Experience.
White pine in the rain. Boise, April 2014. ‘A large tree on the west side of a residential home can save up to $48 per year in electricity and natural gas use.’ ‘Urban trees remove 581 tons of air pollutants … Continue reading
Bio-Art – Jevan Watkins Jones: Occupied with Plants
Photograph: Priscila Buschinelli and Art Exchange. This is another brief post. I couldn’t resist writing something because I’m excited about the bio-art exhibition that is is about to open on my University’s campus. Plants are taking over the Art Exchange. … Continue reading
Wildflower meadow at the University of Essex
A quick post while I write my next piece – wildflowers yesterday at my university, the University of Essex. Wild writing . . .
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Susan Oliver, writing from . . . 