Jurassic Coast

No stone unturned: the art of communing with rocks

30 August 2025 4:00 am

If a river can be considered a living thing, why not stones and rocks? They bear witness to thousands of years of history and have spoken to us long before the formation of language itself. We just need to learn to listen

‘The upper part of the cascade at Hafod’ by John ‘Warwick’ Smith, 1793

Viewing the view

20 February 2016 9:00 am

It’s not all picnics and cowslips. You need sense as well as sensibility to appreciate a landscape, says Mary Keen