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I hope you find time, now and then, to lie in the long grass while birds fly above you, and...

Russell Hoban's is one of the most imaginative, limpid novels I have ever read. Maps loom large in it, real...

The sheep are ‘hefted’, taught a sense of belonging to a place by their mothers when they are lambs. They...

Time occupies my mind spaciously, and yet I'd never thought of it like this. Is it true? Think about your...

An aptly named colour for a Scottish coast, and why wouldn't the tweed-weavers take their palettes from the landscapes around...

A lovely description and an idyllic image of an English county.

‘Herefordshire is green on green, lichen on old apple...

Few writers I know address the meaning of place better than Adam Nicolson, particularly in terms of rootedness or attraction...

I love Mandelstam's poetic summary of place, here the city of Sukhum, where he says every word starts with...

Listening time: 19 minutes. Having inherited, at the age of 21, the Shiants, three small islands east of...