We spoke with Richard Fisher at BBC Future about how he engages with time, the complexities of thinking longer term and that discovering deep time can start close to home.

For many of us, the dark comes with connotations of fear and a sense of the unknown. In ‘Wild Nights Out’, Chris Salisbury invites us to embrace the night time and consider how it can open our minds to new possibilities. This excerpt from the opening of the book welcomes us in to explore the darkness.

A selection of pages extracted from ‘What Time Is It’ - the final publication from visionary thinker John Berger and Turkish artist Selçuk Demirel as they come together to create a precious volume of quotes and artworks about time.

Modern life seems to be all about ‘doing’. Whether it’s a relentless busy-ness or a perception that we’re not keeping up, the idea of stopping to rest can see very counter cultural. Bruce Stanley of Day Crafting reminds us that rest is essential.

Life has a tendency to throw things at us for which we feel woefully underprepared. In her new book ‘Phosphorescence’, Julia Baird explores the things which can sustain us and cultivate light when the world goes dark. This excerpt reflects on the power of time spent in nature’s silence and how it can connect us with the sublime.

Humanity prospers at what cost? James Cartwright from Weapons of Reason invites us to consider our broader ecological influence on the planet, looking back in order to look forward and assess how our advancement might be doing more harm than we know.

What does success look like for you? Perhaps those short term wins aren’t everything they’re cracked up to be. Olympian, former diplomat and business coach Dr Cath Bishop invites us to reassess what it means to succeed and offers a model for how to reframe our perspective on winning.

Housing projects, town planning and the generation of public space often involve the destruction of areas that have belonged to nature since time began. Tim Le Roy had an ambition to change that, a philosophy to incorporate nature into the spaces in which we live. The eco-cathedral. Peter Wouda, master builder of the Le Roy garden tells us more...