The Grassling is a collection of nature memoirs describing the fields and hills of Devon, written by an environmental scientist who grew up there. It contains a multitude of beautiful descriptions of nature and has an eco-critical focus throughout, exploring the connection between man and the natural world. Whereas that is also all it is, just descriptions of fields and nature, and Burnett recounting her experience performing her work in said fields. Whilst the descriptions begin nice, they quickly become repetitive and boring, there is also no real take away other than the idea of man’s association with nature. There’s little else to say, I found that after the quarter-point the book just grew to be tiresome.