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.
Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano
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The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to
valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have
been key...
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