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Nature, art and books to help us hold joy and sorrow in the face of ecological loss.
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Blessed are the muck-carriers (opens the original)
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Welcome to Wreckage and Shimmer, where I write about nature, books and art that help us hold joy and sorrow in the face of the ongoing environmental crisis. This essay comes to you courtesy of a wonderful holiday in Italy earlier this month, and a surprising story I found there.Subscribe nowHead west along the Via San Bernardo in the tiny Italian village of Rocchetta Nervina and you’ll soon find yourself on a rough sandstone track that leads directly up to the Ligurian Alps. In spr
A few words from Italy (opens the original)
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This is where I was walking yesterday, along a thyme-scented path in the Ligurian Alps that leads to the tiny medieval village where Julian and I are staying for a few days. All the time I was thinking about the last piece I posted on here, a piece that came from my heart, from a place of grief and love and loss.<a class=
Writing nature: Taylor Edmonds (opens the original)
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The landscapes that raise us (opens the original)
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We travelled west last month, to a place of wide horizons, unending sea and abundant wildlife. In a single week on Anglesey we saw thousands of guillemots massed on the cliffs, drifts of orchids beside the coastal path, and 1500 pairs of nesting terns on a lagoon island that quivered and squawked like a single, pulsing organism.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QfiB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media
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