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“Weather is a kind of Rorschach test. We see in it what we need to see, or what we feel is missing from our lives.” MoodWeatherRorschach Test Book:Turned Out Nice Again: Living with the Weather Source: Turned Out Nice Again: Living with the Weather
“In 1546 a band of weevils were tried for damaging church vineyards in St Julien. Such trials were rife in the sixteenth century, and the distinguished French lawyer Bartholomew Chassenée rose to fame as an advocate for animals. His work is commemorated in Julian Barnes's mischievous short story 'The Wars of Religion', in which excommunication is sought for a colony of woodworm which had gnawed away the supporting legs of the Bishop of Besançon's throne, causing him to be 'hurled against his will into a state of imbecility'.” HistoryImbecilityWeevils Book:Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature Source: Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
“Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.” WorldNeedsKindMovingCultureGraceCatSpeciesPassingPassingsEffortless Book:Nature Cure Source: Nature Cure
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.” WayTreeRootsLiteral Book:The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change Source: The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change
“Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.” WayKnowing Author:Richard Mabey
“An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.” ReasonAbleEarthOrderNatureWonderfulRelateOrganismsTranscendent Author:Richard Mabey