Nature Archives - Cherwell

A Sunday in the Park with Marianne.

She wears no rings. Her ears are double-pierced, hanging with astrolabes and star-studded. She wears two necklaces—one is a golden cross, and the second...

Government plans to construct ‘forest cities’ between Oxford and Cambridge

Government officials have confirmed plans to construct “forest cities” within a new national forest stretching between Oxford and Cambridge. The announcement is part of the...

The incandescent and the immovable

I went to Ometepe in search of a view, but found something closer to a memory. The island floats inside Lake Nicaragua, its twin volcanoes...

Beauty without a purpose: Nature and the Oxford mind

Our recent spell of sunshine has offered a welcome opportunity to rediscover the natural beauty that the city of Oxford nurtures. Perhaps you’ve enjoyed...

The great outdoors: Oxford’s best green spaces

As the sun emerges from its miserable winter enclave, so do students from their rooms, shedding the weighted blankets and hot water bottles of...

Post Diagnosis

"You could tell no one, And it would come anyway."

Diffidence

"non est, ut putas, virtus, pater, timere vitam, sed malis ingentibus obstare nec se vertere ac retro dare."

Eggs of butterfly thought to be almost extinct found in Oxfordshire

On 16 January, staff and volunteers from the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) discovered approximately two hundred brown hairstreak butterfly eggs. The...

Drawn to Nature: Flies

Animals come in many shapes and sizes, none more so than flies. There are flies that mimic other species, flies with incredible iridescent bodies,...

Addressing the Unknown

'Let's watch the sun making its paperboy/rounds tapping on the window and shedding/off its flecks of glow'

Soil: On Digging a Hole

"A worm has beaten me to the hole I’m digging; when I pull apart the soil, I find a slender punctuation mark in the mud. Its pink body threads through the dark clay."

Petrichor

"in a quiet hollow on the far side of this field rain patters through the leaves like twinkling glass"

Paying Attention

"I wrote that the world feels too much of everything, that I am so lucky to be in it."

Movement

The energy in the trees was palpable- at once pulsating and swirling

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