Kakapo at the Oxford University Natural History Museum Kakapo You my flightless bird undiscovered, green as grass, large and quite absurd. Being a child in the 70’s and 80’s in …
Grendel’s Mother
From the Beowulf Manuscript, BL Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV, f.132 Sometimes a poem comes to me, and it is like meeting an old, dear friend unexpectedly. But sometimes a …
Artists and Hunters
Reindeer from Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France To enter a cave …
The Goldfinch
Het puttertje (The Goldfinch) by Carel Fabritius 1654 in the Mauritshuis, Den Hague Every day for more than fifteen years, I have looked at a print of this painting. Now …
Words of the Naturalist
Galápagos Marine Iguana by Charlesjsharp – Own Work Some time ago, I came across an extract from the Commonplace Book kept by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle …
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