What if the world’s remaining wildness is asking something from us, asking us to become more generous versions of ourselves, so that we might learn a new kind of solidarity with our animal neighbours? Could we be earthed enough to listen, and then listen long enough to change?

— from Late Light by Michael Malay 📚

If we are to develop a properly ecological civilisation, one that acknowledges the needs of the living world – and that incorporates those needs into our moral universe – then we will have to radically overhaul so many of our economic practices, as well as the political institutions that enable and support them.

— from Late Light by Michael Malay 📚

Started reading: Osprey by John Lister-Kaye 📚

My weekend’s reading sorted…

Thanks, @littletollerbooks.bsky.social !

A hand is holding a book titled Osprey by John Lister-Kaye, featuring an illustration of an osprey bird in flight over a landscape.

Pre-strategy workshop breakfast in Market Deeping.

A cup of black coffee sits next to a plate holding whole grain toast topped with a poached egg on a wooden table.

Well, this is exciting — a wild pine marten spotted just down the road from me in Worthing. It’s the first time in over a century.

Enjoying a solstice party on the beach.

A person is swimming in the ocean near a pebbled shore under a blue sky with scattered clouds.

Trees don’t run you over; they don’t shout at you or nick your mobile. In fact there’s a good argument to say that trees are better than people.

— Jeremy Vine, in Broadleaf, the @woodlandtrust.org.uk magazine.

Started reading: Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards 📚

Started reading: Ancient - Reviving the Woods That Made Britain by Luke Barley 📚

Started reading: The English Path by Kim Taplin 📚

Bird feeders scrubbed, dried, disinfected and refilled.

A bird feeder filled with seeds is hanging from a tree branch in a garden.A green-lidded wire cage is hanging from a tree branch, filled with suet balls for bird feeding.A hanging bird feeder filled with seeds is suspended from a branch in front of a brick wall.

A particularly friendly robin caught in winter winds at RSPB Pulborough Brooks this afternoon.

Started reading: The Return of the Grey Partridge by Roger Morgan-Grenville 📚

Started reading: Time and Tide by Fiona Stafford 📚

Fungi season. The woods were full of them yesterday.

A small mushroom with a brown cap and white stem is surrounded by moss, leaves, and twigs.

And then autumn is motorway rain and the dirty courts of service stations, greys and greases and the smeared crimson brake lights streaming into junctions, and days that seem to shut themselves down, disgusted and forgettable.

— Horatio Clare in Autumn, edited by Melissa Harrison 📚

Started reading: Autumn by Melissa Harrison 📚

Spending some quality late summer time with my girls and the local nature reserve.

Started reading: The Hard Way by Susannah Walker 📚

I think I’ll pass it on to my eldest daughter when I’m done.