The art of nature

How will future generations look back on us? This is the question novelist Ian McEwan explores in his new novel What We Can Know. Partly set in an imagined future, a combination of climate change and

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A reactionary radical’s case against progress

The connection between nature and creativity comes in many forms. Here, artists, writers and musicians talk about the different ways in which they take inspiration from the outdoors - and share the places that fuel their imagination

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...

A year in the life of the eighteenth-century naturalist