Adam Nicolson

Apr 23, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Adam Nicolson

Step into the water of an English chalk stream, two or three feet deep, shaded by willows and alders, and you feel the pressure and cold of it around your knees and thighs. The gravel underfoot is dappled with sunlight reaching down to the river floor. All around you the motion of the water is sustained and untroubled, the current never urgent. Because chalk streams are spring fed and little silt finds its way into them, visibility is aquarium clear. The trout within them seem to hang in air.

Mar 20, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Adam Nicolson

All Before Me: A Search For Belonging in Wordsworth’s Lake District Granta, pp.336, 16.99 William Wordsworth’s life is the foundational version of the nature cure. After a disrupted, troubled childhood, sent to live with unsympathetic relations after his mother’s death, a chaotically disaffected time at Cambridge and a muddled youth, fathering a child on a woman he loved but scarcely knew in France, Wordsworth refused all his family’s urgings to a nice career in the church or the law.

Mar 19, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Adam Nicolson

Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Adam Nicolson The healing power of Grasmere Linkedin Messenger Email All Before Me: A Search For Belonging in Wordsworth’s Lake District Esther Rutter Granta, pp. 336, £16 William Wordsworth’s life is the foundational version of the nature cure. After a disrupted, troubled childhood, sent to live with unsympathetic relations after his mother’s death, a chaotically disaffected time at Cambridge and a muddled youth, fathering a child on a woman he...

Feb 7, 2024 | plough.com | Adam Nicolson |Susannah Black Roberts

Adam Nicolson has been rehabilitating his farm in Sussex for many years now, and he discusses the difficulties and rewards of this, and the piece that he wrote about it for Plough’s issue on repair. They go on to discuss the topics of some of Nicolson’s books: Sissinghurst, the farm and garden owned by Nicolson’s grandmother, Vita Sackville-West; Homer; the pre-Socratic philosophers; and sailing.

Dec 13, 2023 | plough.com | Adam Nicolson

If I look out of the window at home in Sussex, across the woods and pastures of the farm where I live, one word comes back to me each morning: repair. Remake this place. Mend it. Undo the damage that was inflicted on it, along with most of the English landscape, in the late twentieth century, when a horrible litany unfolded of removal and reduction, an ignoring of the past, an imposing of the chemical and clarified present.