Our Vital Earth

Words and images by Tim Holt-Wilson

Saturday, 1 November 2025

Bird of Paradise

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Alfred Russell Wallace writes (1869): <One of my objects in coming to the Far East was accomplished. I had obtained a specimen of the  Ki...
Sunday, 26 October 2025

Encouraging ant hills

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 Prof Bill Sutherland visited the Bungalow recently and became interested in the ant hills there. So I explained their story to him as part ...
Sunday, 19 October 2025

Elm

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July 2025. A hot field with wildflower mix is sweltering in South Suffolk sunshine. The clay-rich topsoil has cracked over the past few week...

Rewilding Cringleford

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Cringleford is a Norfolk village lying about two and a half miles distant from the city centre of Norwich. It is an affluent suburb close to...
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Thursday, 19 May 2022

No-Mow-May

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May returns and “ the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land ”. Sadly, the voice of the lawnmower is more likely to be heard today, as...
Thursday, 17 March 2022

In memory of a friend

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Grief comes as a sudden surprise, like a sudden shower in May, and I remember you. I never imagined this day would come - you, strong as a...
Monday, 14 February 2022

Carstone and Chalk

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'Carstone I will mention in order to abuse it"   (Jacquetta Hawkes ('A Land', 1951). Why not? This orangey-coloured Norfolk...
Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Insatiable

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About five years ago I came across the painting 'Insatiable' by Theodore Bolha and Chris Davis.  It graces the cover of ' Clima...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Ferment

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The garden is - as ever - a wealth of life: a ferment of greenery and flies, birds and song, sunlight patterns on leaves: myriad changes in ...
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Tim Holt-Wilson
Living in East Anglia, UK. Using writing and images to communicate the world's story. Promoting geoconservation. Exploring phenomenology and biosemiotics. Criticising world- and people-destroying politics & economics. Dancing Argentine tango. Working freelance in environment & heritage management and interpretation.
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