35 POET BY THE SEA A short story by Ben Okri, illustrated by

Rosemary Clunie

ETHICAL LIVING

36 DON’T CALL ME CUPCAKE Parenting author Sarah Ockwell-Smith tells Marianne Brown how best to develop young appetites... 38 BEASTS AT BEDTIME ...and Liam Heneghan says stories for children can strike a green note 41 DIARY Leo Johnson finds humanity winning out over technology 42 CHOICES Satish Kumar on what makes food really wholesome 44 MEDITATION Peter Reason experiences an outdoor

Midsummer’s Night 45 QWERTY SOMETHING Matt Harvey writes to order

ARTS

46 LEAVES AND BRANCHES,

MEMORIES AND EMOTIONS India Windsor-Clive welcomes the summer shows of Tacita Dean

Food Issue illustration by Linda Scott www.lindascott.me.uk

50 UPHILL AFTER RAIN Peter Abbs selects eco-poetry by

Edward Thomas 52 SEASONAL LESSONS FROM

THE LAND The poet Adam Horovitz recalls a year spent on four farms 54 ZEN AND THE ART OF SEEING Photographer David Ulrich tells Grace

Rodgers of how Buddhist principles inform his craft 56 LIFE’S RICH PATTERN PL Henderson welcomes a new show by environmental artist Liz McGowan

REVIEWS

58 OUR VANISHINGLY

PLEASANT LAND Michael McCarthy reviews Our Place: Can

We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before It is Too Late? by Mark Cocker 60 BEATING THE SYSTEM,

METAPHORICALLY Brendan Montague reviews The Patterning

Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent 62 A MORNING WAKE-UP CALL Anna Turns reviews Morning: How to

Make Time – A Manifesto by Allan Jenkins 63 GROWING PAINS Russell Warfield reviews The Growth

Delusion by David Pilling 64 AN APPETITE FOR

CONNECTION Clare Finney reviews Eat Up! Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tando 65 SHINING NEW LIGHT ON

OUR FUTURE Edward Davey reviews Drawdown: The

Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken (ed.) and Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet by Varun Sivaram

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