Gavin Pretor-Pinney achieved unexpected success with his previous book, The Cloudspotter's Guide, an appreciation of the different types of water vapour masses that fill our skies with such depressing ...

Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Clouds entrance kids, but for adults are often metaphors for gloom But he says they are one of the most diverse, evocative, poetic parts of nature. He says scientists puzzled by ...

Gavin Pretor-Pinney floated with his cloud book but Tom Fort wonders if he’s in too deep with The Wavewatchers’ Companion A few years ago Gavin Pretor-Pinney had an extraordinary success with his ...

You don't need to plan an exotic trip to find beauty and perspective. Just look up, says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. Pretor-Pinney calls for us all to stop for a ...

Ten years ago, Gavin Pretor-Pinney decided to rebrand clouds, or what he likes to refer to as the “patron goddesses of idle fellows.” For too long, clouds had been co-opted by bleak expressions like ...

Un-du-la-tus as-per-a-tus sounds like an entry in the Hogwarts’ charms, spells and potions book. “What would that induce?” ponders Gavin Pretor-Pinney, pictured right, founder of the Cloud ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Gavin Pretor-Pinney looks shocked. I have just made the mistake of saying, innocently enough, that I don’t see many ...

GAVIN Pretor-Pinney is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, which means he stops just short of worshipping them. His book is a celebration of what he calls “nature’s poetry”, but it is also full ...