"I'm looking at the natural world all the time and trying to remind myself of how precious it is, it's still there, an…"

"I was born in a place I am not from and raised in a place I am not from and now I choose to live in a different place…"

"I have always known I’ll never have kids, and I’m lucky to be with a man who feels the same. And I don’t mind talking…"

"The Celtic Tiger definitely hurt Ireland from an ecological point of view – and on a societal level it brought out a …"

"We lived mostly on the dole then, with a handful of crappy part-time jobs in-between, for five years, and it was duri…"

"I find it hard to picture some scrubbed-up stranger wielding my naked, squawking self about as though I were a broile…"

"Everything is filled with stories, an old woman neighbour told me once, the same old woman neighbour, as it happens, …"

"The clever rabbits understood that stillness was the simplest form of subterfuge. The stupid rabbits took off. On the…"

"A robin had claimed ownership of the fuchsia hedge that ran half the length of the east side of the driveway. It scal…"

"The panorama from the tip of the peninsula included a rock island a mile offshore. It was no more than a knoll but lo…"