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  • Book extract

What the wind can bring

In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.

  • Article

Cloves to mull, mask and numb

Sweet, pungent, warm, woody: cloves smell and taste like Christmas. But there’s much more to this spice than that.

  • Article

In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

  • Long read

Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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  • Moth Fly
  • Moth wing scales
  • Moth wing scales
  • Moth wing scales
  • Moth wing scale, SEM
  • Arbre de gomme gulte; (adult Moth)
  • Silk moth antenna
  • Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales.
  • Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales
  • An emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia). Stipple engraving with etching.
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