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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

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  • The structure and distribution of coral reefs. Being the first part of the Geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836 / [Charles Darwin].
  • Four-eyed fish and butterly fish swimming in the sea above a coral reef. Colour line block after H. Murayama.
  • Above, two reef building corals (millepora), a diving bird, a narwhal (monodon), a mollusc and a musk deer; below, a small warbler (whitethroat), two fish, a sea serpent, a conger eel, two molluscs (murices) and a mureana. Engraving by Heath.
  • A coral reef in the Red Sea. Colour line block after E. Haeckel.
  • Hawaiian bobtail squid.
  • Chromatophores from Hawaiian Bobtail Squid
  • Chromatophores from Hawaiian Bobtail Squid
  • Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Eggs
  • Takow harbour (Takao, Kaohsiung), Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Takow harbour (Takao, Kaohsiung), Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
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