Presentations
This page makes available transcripts of key presentations from New Networks for Nature events, along with recordings by presenters.
Transcripts
The Loss of Nature and The Nature of Loss
Michael McCarthy
We are gathered here to explore and celebrate the presence in our lives of other living things, particularly birds, which inform and nourish our imaginations, and inspire us, and to affirm their importance for our culture as a whole, in an undertaking which I am sure everyone here considers timely, relevant, necessary and utterly worthwhile. Yet at the risk of seeming perverse right at the outset, I feel it is necessary to point out that what we may have to deal with, increasingly, is not their presence in our lives, but their disappearance. (more…)
Audio
Ruth Padel reads ‘Time To Fly’, a poem on migration from her collection The Mara Crossing:
Katrina Porteous reads an excerpt from ‘The Wund an' the Wetter’:
Hanna Tuulikki sings ‘Songthrush’, from Nalle's Wilder Shores of Love: