2002 Mabey suffered from depression, and his book Nature Cure, describing his experiences and recovery in the context of man's relationship with landscape and nature, was short-listed for three major literary awards: the Whitbread Biography of the Year, the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize for evoking the spirit of place and the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has edited and introduced editions of Richard Jefferies, Gilbert White, Flora Thompson and Peter Matthiessen. His contributions to BBC radio include "The Scientist and the Romantic", a series of five essays on his lifelong relationship with science and the natural environment broadcast in The Essay on Radio 3 in 2009, and Changing Climates, on our everyday experience of living with the weather, in 2013. Mabey was the first president of the London Wildlife Trust and later a vice-president; Mabey's Meadow, named for him by the London Wildlife Trust, was one of his favourite haunts, and is described in his book The Unofficial Countryside (1974). It provides the only access to Frays Island in the River Colne. Awards and distinctions Mabey has been awarded two Leverhulme Fellowships, and honorary doctorates by St Andrews, Essex and East Anglia for his contributions to nature writing. He was awarded a Civil List Pension in 2008 for services to literature. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2011. He is a Trustee of the arts and conservation charity Common Ground, vice-president of the Open Spaces Society, Patron of the John Clare Society and President of the Waveney and Blythe Arts. His life of Gilbert White won the 1986 Whitbread Biography of the Year. His Flora Britannica won the British Book Awards' Illustrated Book of the Year and the Botanical Society of the British Isles' President's Award, and was runner-up for the BP Natural World Book Prize. He was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs in 1997. Portraits The National Portrait Gallery has a 1984 bromide print of Richard Mabey by Mark Gerson. Mabey sat for sculptor Jon Edgar in Norfolk during 2007, as part of the Environment Triptych (2008) along with Mary Midgley and James Lovelock. Bibliography (with Francesca Greenoak) (with Michael McIntyre) (with illustrations by Clare Roberts) - photography by Gareth Lovett Jones (co-author) Contributions (Editor) (Editor) (Editor) Class (ed.), 1968 The Natural History of Selborne (ed.), Penguin, 1977 In Search of Food (with