Spring

“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going around the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.”

George Orwell, “Some Thoughts on the Common Toad,” first published in Tribune, 12 April 1946.

Bufo bufo tadpoles on the coast of Northumberland, June 2015.