Michael Viney
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A Year's Turning
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1997
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6 editions
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Ireland: A Smithsonian Natural History
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2010
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5 editions
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IRELAND (Smithsonian Natural History Series)
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published
2003
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2 editions
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Another life
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Ireland's Ocean: A Natural History
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2008
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3 editions
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Michael Viney's Natural World
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Another life Again
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Wild Mayo
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A wildlife narrative: Eye on nature
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A Living Island: Ireland's Responsibility to Nature
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2003
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“A heron in a high wind ought to be an aerodynamic disaster: five feet of wings and only four pounds of body: how can it possibly mould those turbulent armfuls of air? But then, just as it seems likely to be blown inside out, like an umbrella, its wings find their arc, the neck is tucked in, and the legs trail out as a rudder. Away it goes, out above the bay to Connemara, a flying weather vane with its own, elected south.”
― A Year's Turning
― A Year's Turning
“When you own the house you live in, and have enough land on which to grow food, what can they do to you, really?”
― A Year's Turning
― A Year's Turning
“Think of what it means to doubt the 'naturalness' of weather. We have never been sure what it would do, but we could be fairly sure of what it would not do, on average and over a period. Given a windy winter like this one, we could count on 'fickle' nature not to do it too often or too catastrophically. But supposing we lost that assurance: supposing, after sixteen storms since Christmas, we had no good reason for trusting that there would not be sixty more?”
― A Year's Turning
― A Year's Turning
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