Creative Writing
Prose and poetry
This section is currently under development. Please contact us if there is any material that you have found particularly inspiring in the context of your work in nature conservation that you would like to see here, copyright permitting (please see here for basic facts about copyright).
Personal statements
As a result of the first two VINE events, some VINE members have been inspired to write their own philosophies of nature conservation, or an account of their inspiration in conservation. If you would like to include yours, please contact us.
Submissions
- A trip to Exmoor - David Russell
- Never Forgets - Susan Richardson
- Defrosting - Susan Richardson
- The Longest Flight - Susan Richardson
- From the Oostvardersplassen - Matthew Oates
- Marlpost Wood, after Rain - Matthew Oates
- On Marlpost Road - Matthew Oates
- Developing Your Personal Ecological Philosophy - VINE - short course at Schumacher College, Dartington, 27/28.11.08 - Peter Quelch
- Winter Gnats (Under the Dance) - Matthew Oates
- Bryher (poem) - Matthew Oates
- Drunkards Corner, Oxfordshire (poem) - Matthew Oates
- Hailey Wood (poem) - Matthew Oates
- The Birth of Spring (poem) - Matthew Oates
- The Ecology of Environmentalism - James Fenton
- Musings from Kingcombe - Matthew Oates
- The Soul Within… - Matthew Oates
- Riding the managerial tiger: Risk, accountability and being human - David Russell
- Wild by Nature: Activating the Wild Psyche - David Russell
- The Dying of the Light: Values in Nature and the Environment - Matthew Oates
- Some thoughts about psychological issues involved in Climate Change. - Keith Payne
- All These I Learnt - Robert Byron
- An Tamadan Mointich (poem) - Tim Beech
- Notes from Lullington Heath – Fifty Years On - Tim Beech
- Tentative Nature Conservation Philosophy Statement (last revised 05/07/2006) - Patrick Vincent
- Nature and Humanity - Mike Alexander
- A personal philosophy statement - John Bacon
- My Personal Values for Nature Conservation - Matthew Oates
