This is a good time to explore the first drafts of new work by great nature writers on their blogs and social media pages, and to swim luxuriously in luminous plant, wildlife and landscape images by photographers. To make your own choices, just Google “best nature blogs” and you will find enough options for a year in isolation, just on the first page. RambleFew nature writers in recent years can match David George Haskell for very close observation of nature, lucid communication of science, and poetic vision. His blog, 10 Things Wrong with Environmental Thinking, is witty, literate and highly eclectic, and challenges comfortable clichés we use about the natural world. Perhaps that’s a cue to start your own blog, right now, right where you are.

Source: The Irish Times May 02, 2020 04:52 UTC