It was reading Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams that convinced Robert Macfarlane that 'lyricism was a function of precision - and that exact and exacting attention to the natural world was a kind of moral gaze.'
Macfarlane writes about what he has learnt from other nature writers in the Jan/Feb edition of Resurgence (not yet online). Macfarlane has also written about Lopez here.
Searching for Satyrus review – on the hunt for an elusive butterfly and the
lepidopterist who named them
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Rena Effendi attempts to find the species named after her wayward,
womanising father – and a connection to the man she never knew – in this
moving docume...
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