Culture Personal Story: A wood of one’s own What I learned when I bought a forest instead of a house. By Richard Mabey
Religion In churches I find an array of wildlife: from carvings of beavers, stags and herons to medieval Green Men myths By Richard Mabey
Nature As the falcon flew towards us, its face looked alarmingly like Hannibal Lecter’s muzzle By Richard Mabey
The queen beech ruled the land, even when she fell How the whomping willow from Harry Potter entered a new "stage of life". By Richard Mabey
Richard Mabey: Exploring the theatrical space of the garden Mark Laird's A Natural History of English Gardening reveals gardens as arenas of debate between the natural and the domesticated. By Richard Mabey
House martins, the little dolphins that love to slide on your roof Martins are in steep decline now, but once their mud-cup nests, slung under eaves, were a familiar sight across… By Richard Mabey
Once upon a time in the West Country: Richard Mabey on the changing patterns of wilderness For a few days every year in the Fal Estuary, primoses flower underwater. But that's not the only spectacular… By Richard Mabey
A wood of one’s own: Germaine Greer’s mission to save the trees In White Beech: the Rainforest Years, Germaine Greer is on a mission to save the ecology of southern Australia. By Richard Mabey
A cave with a view: the imaginative benefits of living in the dark My Norfolk house is my cave conceit. It’s ancient and cranky, full of dark recesses and shifting pools of… By Richard Mabey
Our ash trees are dying, but don’t despair: catastrophes are natural events in the lives of trees Dutch elm disease is a tragic thing to watch, but we shouldn't be too gloomy. Woody vegetation responds, adapts,… By Richard Mabey
Reviewed: Field Notes from a Hidden City by Esther Woolfson Where the wild things are. By Richard Mabey