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Grey Granite is currently rejoicing in reading The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals by Patrick Barkham, Granta Books 2010. Grey Granite finds it difficult to put this enthralling, lyrical book down and is irked by interruptions to her reading.
This is new nature writing at its best, describing the author's quest to reconnect with his boyhood passion for butterflies by aiming to see each of Britain's 59 indigenous butterfly species within a single season.
The following passage resonates particularly with Grey Granite's sense of the need to be outside connecting with the natural world in order to maintain mental and spiritual well being:
'We have to reforge our relationship with natural beauty...To us nature is something we do through the BBC Natural History Unit and a television screen. Our whole relationship is remote and not experiential. We underestimate the importance of beauty and wonder in our lives at our peril....what fascinates me in life is the relationship we have with species. Man and dog. Woman and horse. Man and butterfly.One to one. There is something there. It's ineffable but we know it is there'.
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