“The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.”

By Nihar B. Shah

“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” James Baldwin wrote in one of his finest, least known …

This is an intro and visual guide to the extraordinary diversity of beetle species associated with dead and decaying wood in the UK. Numbering some 650 species, this habitat supports the greatest dive...

A lyrical reminder that our terror and our tenderness spring from the same source.

“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.”