The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (34 page)

East Atlantic Flyway,
69

ecology: as science,
23

Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, The
see
TEEB

ecosystem

as concept,
23–4

evaluated,
25–8
,
245

egalitarianism,
157

egrets,
163

elephants: and ivory trade,
72
,
239

Eliot, T. S.,
172
,
226

The Waste Land
,
158

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
45

‘Nature’ (essay),
195–6

English Nature,
116

environmentalists/conservationists,
18–19
,
26

European Union environmental laws,
77

evolutionary psychology,
58–9

extinction: of species,
16–17
,
64
,
239

Farjeon, Eleanor:
The Silver Curlew
,
53

farming

deleterious effect on wildlife,
89–94

and food supply,
90
,
95–6
,
241

modern methods criticised,
95

First World War,
218–19

Fleming, Sir Alexander,
22–3

Flipper
(film),
198

flowers
see
wild flowers

fly fishing,
174
,
176–7

flyways,
69–70
,
73

food supply (global),
240–1

form: in nature,
170

Fortean Times
,
205

Fowles, John

The Collector
,
11
,
189

The Magus
,
204

Frickley Colliery, near Doncaster,
106

Friends of the Earth (organisation),
198

Fry, Stephen,
200

FUNAI (Brazil’s national Indian foundation),
192–3

Future of Food and Farming
(British government report),
240–1

garden tiger (moth),
104

Gawain (knight),
48

genetically modified organisms,
241

George IV, King,
182

Geum river and estuary, South Korea,
83–5

Glasdrum Wood, Argyll,
233

Gluth, Mandy,
235

golden toad,
17

goldeneye (duck),
54

gorilla, mountain
see
mountain gorilla

Graffham Down, Sussex,
96

Grand Tour (European),
44

Great British Butterfly Hunt,
232
,
236–7

Greene, Harry Plunket:
Where the Bright Waters Meet
,
177

Greenham Mill, Newbury,
186

Greenpeace (organisation),
198

Grey of Falloden, Edward, Viscount,
176

Guam (Pacific island),
239

Guinness Book of Records
,
81

Hamilton, Emma, Lady,
40

harebell,
165–7

hares,
136–41

hawthorn,
151

hay and haymaking,
91–2

Heaney, Seamus,
168
,
173

heath fritillary (butterfly;
Melitaea athalia
),
236

hedgerows: destroyed in Britain,
90–1

Hepburn, Ronald,
195

Heracleitus,
171

Herodotus,
197

Heuvelmans, Bernard:
On the Track of Unknown Animals
,
205–6

Hill, Les,
209

Hills, John Walter:
A Summer on the Test
,
177–8

Hoare, Dan,
232–3

Holocene period (geological),
65

Hopkins, Gerard Manley,
9
,
75–6
,
222

horses: decline of working,
91

Housman, A. E.,
153
,
173

How Hill Nature Reserve, Norfolk Broads,
235

Hughes, Ted,
173

‘October Salmon’ (poem),
146

Hulme, Neil,
237

human beings

evolution and culture,
58–60

and health,
60–1

and liberal secular humanism,
19–20
,
57
,
240

as part of nature,
59–63

threat to natural world,
13–19
,
21

see also
nature

hunter-gatherers,
58–9

Independent
(newspaper)

and Great British Butterfly Hunt,
232
,
236–7

sparrow campaign,
111
,
116

insects

biomass measurement,
114–15

decline and extinction in Britain,
99

future,
241–2

killed by pesticides,
93–4

International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN),
72
,
84

Italy,
190

ivory,
71–2

ivory-billed woodpecker
see
woodpecker, ivory-billed

Japan: environmentalism,
79

Jarrett, Nigel,
211–12

Jefferson, Thomas,
46

Jersey tiger (moth),
161
,
208

Jesus Christ,
217

John Summers & Sons (steelworks),
52

John XXIII, Pope,
54

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
48

joy

defined,
33

in nature,
29–30
,
32–3
,
55
,
62–3
,
75
,
123
,
127–8
,
154–5
,
179
,
194
,
238

and self-knowledge,
215–16

Kant, Immanuel,
195

Keeler, Christine,
208

Kennet, river,
186

Keulemans, John Gerrard,
38–9

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens,
243

King, Andy,
237

kingfisher,
168

Komodo dragon,
206

Korea, South,
66–8
,
74
,
78–81
,
83–4
,
87
,
105
,
211

Kruger National Park, South Africa,
244

Kyra Panagia (Greek island),
196

lady’s slipper orchid,
209
,
243

Laing, R. D.,
2

Lake District,
44

landscape: form,
170

large blue (butterfly),
235–6

large copper (butterfly),
160
,
163
,
168

large yellow underwing (moth),
208

Larkin, Philip,
130

Lascaux (cave, France),
7

Last Chance to See
(radio series),
199

Lawrence, D. H.: ‘Bavarian Gentians’ (poem),
164–5

Lennon, John,
163

Lepidoptera,
101

see also
butterflies; moths

Lewington, Richard,
150

liberal secular humanism,
19–20
,
57
,
240

Lilford, Thomas Littleton, 4th Baron:
Coloured Figures of the
Birds of the British Islands
,
38

Loch Ness Monster,
205

Lodge, George Edward,
38

London

population,
181

sewage,
181–2
,
188

sparrows decline,
106
,
109–11
,
117–21

London Natural History Society,
111
,
119

Lord God Bird (
Campephilus principalis
),
207

love: and nature,
246

Lovegrove family (Maidenhead),
182

Lovell, Jim,
18

McCarthy, Flora (author’s daughter),
196
,
200–1
,
231

McCarthy, Jack (author’s father),
1–3
,
224–5
,
230

McCarthy, Jo (author’s wife),
77
,
196
,
200

McCarthy, John (author’s brother)

adult problems,
224–5
,
230

and author’s mental confusion,
227
,
229

piano-playing,
222–4

troubled boyhood,
1
,
3–4
,
8
,
10
,
34–5
,
222

McCarthy, Michael (author)

close relations with mother,
223–4

confused reaction to mother’s death,
226–30

lung collapses,
191

McCarthy, Norah (
née
Day; author’s mother)

author dedicates butterfly sightings to,
233–6
,
238

author’s confused feelings for after death,
226–30

close relations with author,
223–4

death,
225–6

encourages son John’s career,
222–3

mental disturbances and recovery,
1–4
,
9–10
,
34–5
,
221–2
,
230