This collection of 55 poems reflects the beauty, dynamics and transience of the natural world, including human attraction and love.

This book, a collection of 55 poems by the British scientist, natural historian and poet Hugh David Loxdale, originally published in 1988, is a wide-ranging celebration of nature in poetry. It has now been republished as a new edition and with a colourful front cover by Brambleby Books. The Eternal Quest concerns the beauty and dynamics of the natural world, its persistence and fragility. Most poems are on natural history themes, - the seasons, weather, plants and animals, although some cover philosophical perceptions of life and time, including human love. Thus ultimately, even whilst the seasons come and go, all of nature attempts to fulfil its destiny, whatever this may be molecular, genetic, evolutionary, romantic or spiritual, and is surely engaged in an eternal quest of sorts.

Dragonfly
Reluctant Spring
Swifts
Winter Visitors
The Marble Cone
Pipistrelles
At the Threshold of Spring
Late Autumn
The British Weather
Seagulls
Sunset Over Oxfordshire
The Lake
The Wren
Song Thrush Song
Fat Wood-Pigeons
Bumblebees
Blackbirds Song
Sunday Morning at the Manor
April Sunshine
Little Tern
Knott Wood in May
The Bullfinch
The Hoverfly
May
Already the Year Moves On
Deadly Nightshade
At the Edge of the City Park
Rain
Dawn Chorus
The Peacock
In Emmas Flat
Autumn Gales
Magpies
Fallen Autumn Leaves
Hawthorn Berries
The Swan
The Beige Stallion
Dippers
Fair Jacqueline
The Express Train
Winter Aconite
And What of the Creatures of the Night?
Sad Rose
Ghost of a Cat?
When Summer has Reached its Drowsiest State
The Underground
Small Boys and a Girl Fishing
Upon the Rivers Winding Way
Time
Starlings
Where Love Resides
A Dogs Life
North Wind in May
Wild Violets
Green Mood Bird and the Herald of Spring