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#naturewriting — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #naturewriting, aggregated by home.social.

  1. The tulip poplars have begun dropping yellow leaves in August. Not autumn — thirst. The ground went dry and the tree made a decision about it, ahead of schedule, the way anything does when the season asks too much.

    Kudzu in bloom on every roadside, smelling absurdly of grape soda. Cicada shells still gripping the pine bark where the bodies climbed out.

    #Nature #Phenology #Seasonal #Trees #Summer #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Druid #NatureWriting #Georgia #Kudzu #Cicadas
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  2. A bird’s voice chinks and tinkles
    Alone in the gaunt reedbed –
    Tiny silversmith
    Working late in the evening…

    —Norman MacCaig, “July evening”
    published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)

    birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poem

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig #summer #naturepoetry #naturewriting

  3. “The more time you spend here in the Highlands, the more you recognise and realise and come to feel yourself part of the different layers of the land [… people] see it as wild and untameable, when in actual fact it is very much a human landscape”

    —Annie Worsley recommends her best five books on the Scottish Highlands

    fivebooks.com/best-books/scott

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #naturewriting #memoir #NanShepherd #NormanMacCaig #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #books

  4. A post about #water & #rivers: From the history of the #Danube to the #Wutach in the #BlackForest – one of the last wild rivers in Germany. With reflections by Alexander von Humboldt, one of the first ecologists, and a #readingtip: the new book by #RobertMacfarlane. Bonus track: a #photo exhibition.

    silberspur.de/blogs/read/113

    #River #WildRiver #Nature #Sustainability #Ecology #Time #AlexanderVonHumboldt #LivingRivers #Danube #NatureWriting #ClimateChange #NaturePhotography #Photography