Nature in writing

FOLLOWING a successful inaugural year in 2015, #NiddFest is returning to Nidderdale, #Yorkshire, to present a weekend programme of literary greats (August 5-7). 

Focusing on celebrating nature in writing, the 2016 programme includes an intimate opening night with festival patron and poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and ‘world laureate’ Imtiaz Dharker, a lively children's programme, and wild swimming and music from Mercury Prize-nominated Kathryn Williams.

Taking place in venues such as a Grade 2 listed church and Fish Pond Wood in Bewerley, the festival captures the spirit of the Yorkshire Dales, while providing a platform to world-class authors, poets and experts.

Outdoor events include a wood walk and wild swim, led by a local expert who will speak about managing ancient woodland.

Writers taking part include Adam Feinstein, Nick Davies, Ali Shaw, John Lewis-Stempel, and gardening expert Christine Walkden.

The children's programme has been extended, and including everything from den building to a big draw with children’s author and illustrator Helen Stephens.

Tickets are per event and range from £3 to £24, available from

www.niddfest.com.

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What they wrote … about Paris

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in #Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”  
― Ernest Hemingway

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” 
― Oscar Wilde

“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!” 
― Victor Hugo

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.” 
― Jack Kerouac

“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
–F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Paris is a heaven for all woman's obsessions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptuous pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.” 
― Kirsten Lobe

“As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche 


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