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IT IS HARD TO HEAR HIM speak beneath the roar of lorries on Orient Way. Every few seconds, a petrol-scented tailwind gusts along the roadside, and all the branches shudder. Twelve Continue reading
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IT IS HARD TO HEAR HIM speak beneath the roar of lorries on Orient Way. Every few seconds, a petrol-scented tailwind gusts along the roadside, and all the branches shudder. Twelve Continue reading
NATURE HAS ALWAYS soaked me in waterfalls of wonder. In a redwood forest, when I crawled into the hollow of an ancient tree and listened to its centuries of stories. By Continue reading
ADAPTABILITY If wild gooseberries aren’t in bloom or have too many thorns to bother with, look instead for nettles strewn across the wet earth. Collect them, carefully, and boil their stems Continue reading
J.ROBERT OPPENHEIMER IS probably the figure from the twentieth century who comes closest to a myth. In Greek mythology, Prometheus brought fire to mankind by stealing it from the peak of Continue reading
WHILE LIVING IN SEOUL a decade ago, I attended a class with a Buddhist nun who said she’d found a way to stop mosquitoes from biting her head. Stroking her gleaming Continue reading