Inspiring Travel Writing About the Natural World: Page 15 of 68

"Africa makes sense of all that ecology-biodiversity-sustainable-habitat stuff that sounds so like the special pleading of socially inept, bearded weirdies when applied to a field in back-garden Britain. Here it has the depth and grace of a religious..."

"The best, however, is yet to come - as you load into a waiting chopper for a flight over the edge of the rim and into the heart of the Grand Canyon."

"A few miles from the McDonalds, Premiership football and English pubs of Playa del Ingles, people in the Barranco de Guayadeque still live in caves"

"All around us are towering, glowering peaks rising with perfect irregularity from the flat, green waters of the fjord."