Nature Book Reader June 2020 - Flipbook - Page 25
distracted by the cobwebs
in her gutter as her husband
lies seriously ill indoors, and
visits to pathology labs: “I
thought ‘we are just meat’,
then called it back. Flesh,
bodily substance, colons and
livers and hearts, had taken
on a new wonder. If you had
to design a pump or gasexchange system or device
for absorbing nutrients, you
would never, ever, think of
using meat.”
Wonderful.
I can’t wait for next
September.
Further Reading
Notes from Walnut
Tree Farm
by Roger Deakin
The Small Heart of
Things
by Julian Hoffman
The Wormingford
series
by Ronald Blythe
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