Nature

‘Nature’ - the wild world, the great creation, the complex wonder of all that is not under human control - this has entranced me since I can remember. I have tried for decades to capture it in words and, of course, have failed. I have written about the human relationship with the non-human world in relation to politics, environmental activism, art, writing, ways of life. I have written about the economic, political, material and spiritual aspects of the subject, in every form I can manage: essays, poetry, fiction, investigative journalism.

I started writing as a young, eager, radical eco-activist back in the early 90s. I’m older, wiser, greyer and more disillusioned (or realistic) now, but the fire of connection still burns as strong as it did when I was chained to bulldozers at Twyford Down. The articles here are just some - perhaps the best - of what I’ve written about my world’s failing relationship with the living Earth over the last quarter of a century. The best of these, and some others, are collected and framed by the wider story in my book Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist.