The complete online text of Field and Hedgerow by Richard Jefferies.

The name of Richard Jefferies is one invoked most often by association, whether with predecessors such as William Cobbett or Gilbert White, with contemporaries such as Thomas Hardy or W. H. Hudson, or with successors such as Edward Thomas or Henry Willia...

Richard Jefferies defies easy literary categorization. Labels such as essayist, journalist, novelist, rural observer, naturalist, and mystic have all been applied to this British writer who chronicled nineteenth-century rural life, including the adventur...

In recent years the word "hedgerow" has crept into the conversation of American gardeners. It's a word we know from English poetry -- a leafy place where mischievous children hide and lovers keep secret trysts. Essentially, it's just a more old-fashioned, romantic version...

Much has been written lately about the rampant destruction of tropical rain forests. Another well-known natural habitat is disappearing at an equally alarming rate: the hedgerows of Europe. Although not as significant as rain forests on the global scale, hedgerows are nearer and dearer...