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My new Nature Speaks essay, Returning to the Pattern, reflects on meaning, connection, and the quiet intelligence of the natural world.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/11/11/r...
My new Nature Speaks essay, Returning to the Pattern, reflects on meaning, connection, and the quiet intelligence of the natural world.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/11/11/r...
When we touch soil, something in us rearranges - electrically, biologically, quietly.
“Bare Hands” - a reflection on Kathy Willis, earthing, and the deep conversation between skin and soil.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/11/02/b...
When we touch soil, something in us rearranges - electrically, biologically, quietly.
“Bare Hands” - a reflection on Kathy Willis, earthing, and the deep conversation between skin and soil.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/11/02/b...
Its inscription: “The statue of Hercules stood here 1770–1984.”
But Hercules is gone. Mars vanished too.
Even absence speaks - if we listen.
Read the full reflection: nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...
Its inscription: “The statue of Hercules stood here 1770–1984.”
But Hercules is gone. Mars vanished too.
Even absence speaks - if we listen.
Read the full reflection: nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...
Read my latest piece - The Human River:
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/10/12/t...
Read my latest piece - The Human River:
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/10/12/t...
→ The Robin and the Wind on Nature Speaks.
#NatureWriting #ArtJournal #WildPlaces
→ The Robin and the Wind on Nature Speaks.
#NatureWriting #ArtJournal #WildPlaces
life writes its quiet stories.
What we call a boundary
is often a beginning.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/10/02/t...
life writes its quiet stories.
What we call a boundary
is often a beginning.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/10/02/t...
Tolstoy once wrote that no disease is ever the same, because no life is ever the same. What if healing is as much about presence and belonging as it is about treatment?
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/30/t...
Tolstoy once wrote that no disease is ever the same, because no life is ever the same. What if healing is as much about presence and belonging as it is about treatment?
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/30/t...
It is not simply a book to read. It is a book to walk with.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/28/t...
It is not simply a book to read. It is a book to walk with.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/28/t...
The sky reminds you how vast it all is - and how you belong in it.
The sky reminds you how vast it all is - and how you belong in it.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/24/t...
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/24/t...
Jung saw it as the archetype of imagination.
McGilchrist describes it as the right hemisphere’s openness.
Desmet warns of the cost of forgetting it.
My reflection here: nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/23/t...
Jung saw it as the archetype of imagination.
McGilchrist describes it as the right hemisphere’s openness.
Desmet warns of the cost of forgetting it.
My reflection here: nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/23/t...
It is the hush of a path through trees,
the company of your own steps,
and the dog trotting beside you.
You were never alone.
It is the hush of a path through trees,
the company of your own steps,
and the dog trotting beside you.
You were never alone.
Stone has no defence.
Time wins gently.
What we build is always temporary - but in the end, it belongs back to the wild.
Stone has no defence.
Time wins gently.
What we build is always temporary - but in the end, it belongs back to the wild.
On Having No Head: A Way of Seeing with the World nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/19/o...
On Having No Head: A Way of Seeing with the World nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/19/o...
It arrives in a kitchen, in a garden, in the smallest overlooked moment - the peel of an apple, the song of a blackbird.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/18/i...
It arrives in a kitchen, in a garden, in the smallest overlooked moment - the peel of an apple, the song of a blackbird.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/18/i...
The more we resist, the heavier it feels. The more we let go, the more we flow.
A reflection on surrender and the wild world: Letting the River Carry Us: Michael A. Singer and the Surrendered Life nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/15/l...
The more we resist, the heavier it feels. The more we let go, the more we flow.
A reflection on surrender and the wild world: Letting the River Carry Us: Michael A. Singer and the Surrendered Life nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/15/l...
Iain McGilchrist calls it the mind claiming sovereignty.
Reality thins when trapped in concept.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/13/w... #iainmcgilchrist
Iain McGilchrist calls it the mind claiming sovereignty.
Reality thins when trapped in concept.
nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/13/w... #iainmcgilchrist
Letting go is never only loss.
It is the soil of renewal.
What might grow in the space you make?
Letting go is never only loss.
It is the soil of renewal.
What might grow in the space you make?
Rachel Carson, Einstein, Gibran & Robin Wall Kimmerer walk a twilight meadow together in this new Imaginary Conversation. nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/09/a...
Rachel Carson, Einstein, Gibran & Robin Wall Kimmerer walk a twilight meadow together in this new Imaginary Conversation. nature-speaks.co.uk/2025/09/09/a...