Litsy

kelli7990

Raccoon | DANIEL HEATH. JUSTICE

I colored this picture and wrote this story about it.

#haiku #haikuaday #haikuhive

JenlovesJT47 ♥️♥️♥️ 6d

lil1inblue 🩶🦝🩶 6d

dabbe We're still seeing these lovelies! ♥️💚💙 6d

AnnCrystal Love 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🦝📚🐝💝. 6d

21 likes4 comments

Robotswithpersonality

Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species | Derek Gow

pick

Emphasis on the Bedlam. There is much in this book's intent and its writing to recommend it, but that doesn't stop it from feeling messy overall, in a way that I'm fairly certain the publishers wanted to present as charming, but mostly felt distressing. Gow excels at describing larger than life characters he's encountered as well as wildlife and their natural settings. His rueful reports of various wildlife encounters are hilarious, provided 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? it is only the unwary humans and not the animals facing injury; this is not always the case.
He is righteously, thunderingly angry at organizations in Scotland and neighbouring environs who are bogged down my bureaucracy and not truly providing tangible aid in conservation and rewilding efforts, and let's them have it full blast. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? He also has a youth in farming and an earlier career involved in the gamut of wildlife enclosures from decrepit zoos to groundbreaking nature preserves.
Suffice to say there was more discussion of disabled, diseased and dead animals than I was prepared for.
I'm glad he's working towards change, that he sees hope, that he's pushing when he recognizes the need for action. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? What I should clarify is this book doesn't really belong on the shelf beside Wilding (the journey of the Knepp estate from industrial agriculture farm into a rewilded area full of recovering/reappearing species). 3w

Robotswithpersonality 5/? I think the content would be more accurately summarized as one man's journey with a passion for animals from engaging with various species in various commercial enterprises to recognizing the species' intrinsic value and how he can help and what needs to be done to restore British native species, with a number of reality checks along the way about the perils these species are in at this moment. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 What I do know is I would absolutely love to read further collections of stories about the people and animals he's encountered because he does have an evocative, if breathless run-on-sentence, style that fully engages the reader. Hope those who can handle the content benefit from the experience!
⚠️Animal abuse, animal death 3w

6 likes5 comments

Robotswithpersonality

Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species | Derek Gow

LOVE his descriptions and similes.

6 likes

Robotswithpersonality

Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species | Derek Gow

“...a cattle trailer with hiccups.“ 🫣😆

8 likes

Robotswithpersonality

Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species | Derek Gow

Never contemplated whether some sheep could swim, does the wool weigh them down or make them buoyant? 🤔 🐑🏊‍♂️

9 likes

Robotswithpersonality

Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm Into an Ark for Lost Species | Derek Gow

Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence. 🎨

10 likes1 stack add

Suelizbeth

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature | Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian

pick

What an incredible read! Patricia Ononiwu Kaishon's book reminds me of Hope Jahren and Robin Wall Kimmerer, all scientists deeply involved in nature and natural science. I learned so much about fungi, and there is still so much to learn. This book teaches that nature is inclusive and it feels like a warm hug. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lcsmcat Sounds good! Stacking it. 1mo

Suelizbeth @Lcsmcat 📚❤️ 1mo

37 likes1 stack add2 comments

Welcome to Litsy!

Trending Hashtags

Trending Books