Despite the ubiquitous nature of the theme (beauty is all around us, isn’t it?) most of us stumbled selecting suitable resources. After searching our shelves (physical and virtual), we wound up with a great list of things to read, watch, and listen to that touch on beauty. (I’m impressed no one jumped at the obvious Zadie Smith option!)
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We met to talk about ‘Nature’ as a theme in the glittering world of literature in a quiet corner of a sprawling urban garden. Against a leafy backdrop, our discussion flowed from science fiction with generations of environmental evolution to pastoral admirations of rural life and on to the natural (and inevitable) state of death. We inevitable brought up pandemic-related words and touched on the otherworldliness of the natural world.
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