Our Vital Earth

I managed to pick up a copy of Dixon's 'Bryophytes of the Pleistocene' yesterday for £15. I know very little about mosses, but w...

Image by Alexey Kljatov courtesy   http://www.demilked.com/macro-snowflakes-diy-camera-alexey-kljatov/ I see something beautiful here...

7-11-2013 Clouds... Cauliflowers? Clouds don't fit easily into words. All we have is metaphors, and what we see in the sky's v...

She arrives when I am on the terrace eating lunch outdoors: a flicker of movement among the plant pots, a sally then a quick dash for cover...

"Everything we think we know about the world is a model ".           - Donella H. Meadows: 'Thinking in Systems: A Primer...

I am seated outside my front door in the sunlight, reading. " Our most immediate experience of things... is necessarily an experience o...

A squirrel is busy retrieving acorns - a small hole in the grass, the husk of the acorn lying beside it = the evidence. New potholes appear ...