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Today sees the launch of The Lost Words: An Explorer's Guide - a free 32-page guide by @JohnEvajohn59 for anyone using our book in schools, nurseries, homes, woods. Please share with teachers, educators, parents.
Huge thanks to @JohnMuirTrust & Eva! Here: https://t.co/vwAYBBly4z
Ghost cartographies of the underland: Keith Russ has constructed these remarkable maps of the abandoned mine workings of Cornwall & Devon
(reproduced in the unmissable new edition of @elementumjournl).
What an *astonishing* resource: two million wondrous nature illustrations made freely available by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Yes.
Images here:
https://t.co/cIvz76yhv9
Background to the project here: https://t.co/2GLen93ocn
Sound-mirrors, salt-marshes, radar ruins: today I met with @jimrossignol of @bigrobotltd to explore collaborating on a new video game set in the eerier reaches of the British landscape...
"We are a Venn diagram come to life": fascinating @aeonmag essay on the vexing problem of individuality in biology.
https://t.co/zczSj078jr
A brilliant @andrea_wulf essay on the synthesis of "scientific rigor" & "poetic wonder" in Thoreau's Journals.
https://t.co/Nk6NXd3IVZ
Caspar David Friedrich's iconic Wanderer Above A Sea of Fog turns 200 next year. Fascinatingly influential. What photographs/images echo it?
For solstice: "Midnight Sun" by Eric Ravilious, painted in June 1940 when he was deployed as a War Artist to Norway.
Photo © Tate
Word of the day: "barchan" - a crescent-shaped dune, steepest on its lee-slope slip-face (cf parabolic dunes, star-dunes & transverse dunes)