These nature diaries through the year, are ideal to read throughout each season, to have us appreciate the changing of the plants and how wildlife reacts. Forget about politics and the media for a while, and just sit under a tree, enjoying one or more of these lovely books.
- The Stubborn Light of Things is by Londoner Melissa Harrison, who after adopting a dog and reconnecting to nature on daily walks (swifts nesting in a nearby church, ivy-leaved toadflax growing out of brick walls and the first blackbird’s song), moved to ancient rural Suffolk. This diary (compiled from her beloved Nature Notebook column in The Times, maps her joyful engagement with the natural world, showing how we must first learn to see, then act to preserve the beauty on our doorsteps, no matter where we live.
