In recent years, our native water voles have been one of the many casualties of our changing countryside management practices.
Alice Hamilton's excellent production for the touring company, Up In Arms, reminds us that the play, in its portrait of a changing countryside, is like a minor-key version of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem.
Belinda McKeon and Claire Keegan have also won acclaim for novels exploring the changing mores of countryside and family, while the anthology The Long Gaze Back, published by New Island last month, showcases 30 stories by female writers including Christine Dwyer Hickey, Lucy Caldwell and Lia Mills.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Derek developed a keen sense of the changing face of the countryside, out of which emerged arguably his most significant and lasting contribution to society - a framework for the conservation of nature.
The Museum of English Rural Life, in East Reading, is a museum dedicated to recording the changing face of farming and the countryside in England.
"The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire" captured the changing seasons along 10 miles of a single-track road in the countryside.
The pleasing timber buildings that house the changing and plant facilities are basic, but they blend perfectly into the soft, green countryside that surrounds the pool.
Since 1976, she has lived on the Danish island of Mors where she has photographed the ever-changing countryside and coastline.
There is no building material to match this limestone: it reflects and absorbs light in a way that perfectly matches the shifting, changing moods of the countryside.
For now, at least, an interest in the building spree that is changing the Chinese countryside to one of industrial parks and high-rise apartment buildings is the best ticket to riches in what by 2020 may be the world's second-biggest economy.
