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  1. Nothing like a well-packed Berthoud bag.

    Mini-laptop, hardback book and cycling clothes for the longer ride home.

    On the train now a little early haven’t travelled this way around in ages. It’ll beat the wind though and I didn’t need to get up so early.

    Now to read a little of Ness, by Robert Macfarlane. Introduced to his work by the beautiful record by Hayden Thorpe which was inspired by his reading of it and the obsession with Orford Ness that followed. I sense I may have to ride over there.

    #cycling #BikeTooter #commute #luggage #RobertMacfarlane #bookstodon

  2. Nothing like a well-packed Berthoud bag.

    Mini-laptop, hardback book and cycling clothes for the longer ride home.

    On the train now a little early haven’t travelled this way around in ages. It’ll beat the wind though and I didn’t need to get up so early.

    Now to read a little of Ness, by Robert Macfarlane. Introduced to his work by the beautiful record by Hayden Thorpe which was inspired by his reading of it and the obsession with Orford Ness that followed. I sense I may have to ride over there.

    #cycling #BikeTooter #commute #luggage #RobertMacfarlane #bookstodon

  3. Today has so far been sort of a lazy, under the weather loss but I'm feeling a little better at the moment so I'm going to see if I can do a small walk/hike.

    It was nice though, I did read and finish "Is a River Alive?" by Robert Macfarlane which I loved loved loved and HIGHLY recommend.

    #books #isARiverAlive #natureRights #naturesRights #riverRights #robertMacfarlane

    bookshop.org/p/books/is-a-rive

  4. Today has so far been sort of a lazy, under the weather loss but I'm feeling a little better at the moment so I'm going to see if I can do a small walk/hike.

    It was nice though, I did read and finish "Is a River Alive?" by Robert Macfarlane which I loved loved loved and HIGHLY recommend.

    #books #isARiverAlive #natureRights #naturesRights #riverRights #robertMacfarlane

    bookshop.org/p/books/is-a-rive

  5. 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

  6. Ein Beitrag über #Wasser & #Flüsse: Von der Geschichte der #Donau bis zur #Wutach im #Schwarzwald – einer der letzten wilden Flüsse Deutschlands. Mit Gedanken von Alexander von Humboldt, einem der ersten Ökologen, & einem #Lesetipp: das neue Buch von #RobertMacfarlane. Bonustrack: eine Fotoausstellung...

    silberspur.de/blogs/read/111

    #Fluss #Wildfluss #Natur #Landschaftsfotografie #Ökologie #Zeit #AlexanderVonHumboldt #LebendigeFlüsse #Donau #NatureWriting #Klimawandel #NaturFotografie #Fotografie

  7. Ein Beitrag über #Wasser & #Flüsse: Von der Geschichte der #Donau bis zur #Wutach im #Schwarzwald – einer der letzten wilden Flüsse Deutschlands. Mit Gedanken von Alexander von Humboldt, einem der ersten Ökologen, & einem #Lesetipp: das neue Buch von #RobertMacfarlane. Bonustrack: eine Fotoausstellung...

    silberspur.de/blogs/read/111

    #Fluss #Wildfluss #Natur #Landschaftsfotografie #Ökologie #Zeit #AlexanderVonHumboldt #LebendigeFlüsse #Donau #NatureWriting #Klimawandel #NaturFotografie #Fotografie

  8. A river may be considered a life form itself. It is what #RobertMacfarlane champions with passion and rigor in Is a River Alive? (public library) — a portal of a #book lucid and luminous, hinged on something particular and urgent (the rights of #nature movement) but (because this is Robert Macfarlane) opening into the deepest recesses of the existential and the timeless: the measure and meaning of being alive.
    #writing #books #bookstodon
    themarginalian.org/2025/05/30/

  9. @scotlit @bookstodon @scottishlass

    "Merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend, with no intention but to be with him."

    Fascinating. I admit to not having read "The Living Mountain" and indeed not knowing Nan Shepherd, the writer. This powerful essay by Robert Macfarlane has shown me that this was an inexcusable omission. I will read all of Shepherd's novels, and I must read The Living Mountain.

    #NanShepherd #RobertMacfarlane #TheLivingMountain

  10. @scotlit @bookstodon @scottishlass

    "Merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend, with no intention but to be with him."

    Fascinating. I admit to not having read "The Living Mountain" and indeed not knowing Nan Shepherd, the writer. This powerful essay by Robert Macfarlane has shown me that this was an inexcusable omission. I will read all of Shepherd's novels, and I must read The Living Mountain.

    #NanShepherd #RobertMacfarlane #TheLivingMountain

  11. Riding the iron horse to visit dad; travelling companions - Satie on my headphones, final few dozen pages of Robert MacFarlane's Is A River Alive? flowing past & around me like a highland stream that knows it will become a mighty firth, then the world ocean.

    Beautiful, thoughtful work.

    #books #livres #AmReading #bookstodon #IsARiverAlive #RobertMacFarlane #Nature

  12. Riding the iron horse to visit dad; travelling companions - Satie on my headphones, final few dozen pages of Robert MacFarlane's Is A River Alive? flowing past & around me like a highland stream that knows it will become a mighty firth, then the world ocean.

    Beautiful, thoughtful work.

    #books #livres #AmReading #bookstodon #IsARiverAlive #RobertMacFarlane #Nature

  13. #LunchtimeReading : starting Is a River Alive?, the forthcoming Robert MacFarlane, coming out at the end of April from Penguin.

    Robert always conjures a sense of wonder about the natural world, I've so been looking forward to this.

    #books #livres #AmReading #RobertMacFarlane #IsARiverAlive #nature #NatureWriting

  14. #LunchtimeReading : starting Is a River Alive?, the forthcoming Robert MacFarlane, coming out at the end of April from Penguin.

    Robert always conjures a sense of wonder about the natural world, I've so been looking forward to this.

    #books #livres #AmReading #RobertMacFarlane #IsARiverAlive #nature #NatureWriting

  15. #FinishedReading this remarkable nature writing by #NanShepherd about her walks in the #Cairngorms in Scotland. In the 40s, well before anyone was talking about mindfulness, this book is an ode to minute observation both of the world around you and of its effect on your senses and body. There is a whole chapter on the feeling of falling asleep and waking on a mountain. Read the perceptive foreword by #RobertMacfarlane and avoid the facile afterword by Jeanette Winterson! #Bookstodon @bookstodon

  16. #FinishedReading this remarkable nature writing by #NanShepherd about her walks in the #Cairngorms in Scotland. In the 40s, well before anyone was talking about mindfulness, this book is an ode to minute observation both of the world around you and of its effect on your senses and body. There is a whole chapter on the feeling of falling asleep and waking on a mountain. Read the perceptive foreword by #RobertMacfarlane and avoid the facile afterword by Jeanette Winterson! #Bookstodon @bookstodon

  17. Enjoying my first listen to the #JohnnyFlynn / #RobertMacfarlane albums Lost in the Cedar Wood & The Moon Also Rises. Enjoyed Macfarlane's books so was interested to check them out. Folkie stuff with a bit of a pagan element perhaps - and of course nature themes, as might be expected with Macfarlane's involvement. Fine stuff!

  18. A magical new musical based on ‘The Lost Spells’, the phenomenally-successful book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, has opened at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. Eileen Jones.
    #Bylines #LostSpells #JackieMorris #RobertMacfarlane
    northwestbylines.co.uk/lifesty

  19. A magical new musical based on ‘The Lost Spells’, the phenomenally-successful book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, has opened at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. Eileen Jones.
    #Bylines #LostSpells #JackieMorris #RobertMacfarlane
    northwestbylines.co.uk/lifesty

  20. #ClimateDiary am a bit late for #WildFlowerHour but after reading #RobertMacFarlane’s comment on how much #Cowslip there was this year, and everyone else sharing their pictures, I spotted so much too - nice how these conversations alert you, and to be enjoying this all together. And masses of #Dandelions everywhere too. As someone else said: it seems to be a yellow year! Though a few #Bluebells too 😊

  21. #ClimateDiary am a bit late for #WildFlowerHour but after reading #RobertMacFarlane’s comment on how much #Cowslip there was this year, and everyone else sharing their pictures, I spotted so much too - nice how these conversations alert you, and to be enjoying this all together. And masses of #Dandelions everywhere too. As someone else said: it seems to be a yellow year! Though a few #Bluebells too 😊

  22. I just began delving into Robert MacFarlane’s “Landmarks”…brilliant, and moving.
    From the six pages of regional terms for Rain and Storm…

    -mizzling: raining lightly and finely, north-west England
    -gleamy: showers and fitful sunshine, Essex
    -thunder-lump: rain-cloud hanging over a place, Shetland
    -clagarnach: clatter; noise of heavy on an iron roof, Irish

    …then will move on to Mists and Fogs…

    #Landmarks #RobertMacfarlane #language #rain #storm #landscape #payingattention

  23. This book is a masterpiece, and I'll leave it at that. I won't demean it by even attempting a summary. #RobertMacFarlane #bookstodon #Mastodonbooks #naturewriting

  24. Ohhh, I didn't know Robert MacFarlane (one of my favourite nature writers), has been involved in an adaptation of Susan Cooper's classic The Dark is Rising for BBC radio over the festive period theguardian.com/books/2022/dec

    Still a great story, especially if you have young ones to read it with.

    #books #radio #fantasy #TheDarkIsRising #RobertMacFarlane #SusanCooper

  25. “For deep time is measured in units that humble the human instant: millennia, epochs and aeons, instead of minutes, months and years. Deep time is kept by rock, ice, stalactites, seabed sediments and the drift of tectonic plates. Seen in deep time, things come alive that seemed inert. New responsibilities declare themselves. Ice breathes. Rock has tides. Mountains rise and fall. We live on a restless Earth.”

    ― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

    #DeepTime #RockyMountains #RobertMacfarlane