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Martin Brown
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Traveller on a regenerative journey.
Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour
Host @ Zoom Regenerative
Writer: @ Regen/Notes +
Author: FutuREstorative +
Place: Forest of Bowland
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#BookWeekScotland #friendship
Nan Shepherd
Living Mountain
‘Yet often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination, when I reach nowhere in particular but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend with no intention but to be with him’
#NatureWriting
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The thrust of the song thrush song has to be #joy … There is a willpower in the emotion.

@markcoker.bsky.social in this morning’s Country Diary
#NatureWriting

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: What is the thrust of the song thrush song? It has to be joy | Mark Cocker
Hogshaw, Derbyshire: To hear one in December isn’t totally unheard of – any excuse to revel in that uplifting, deceptively simple sound
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November 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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I caught this evening …
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Nature writer, n. A person who delights in paying attention, being astonished, and telling about it.
(Mary Oliver)
#NatureWriting
November 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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An evening walk along Rubh Arisaig coast road. The sky as the sands, silver with hues of grey and many more of blue. Oystercatchers squabbling at low tide, winter bracken of firebright burnt and raw umbers. 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Wonderful atmospherics today on #Knoydart “Britains Last Wildnerness” where sea, sky, mountain dance with light
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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‘in the late afternoon the wind suddenly dropped for half an hour, and there was the quiet splendour of purpling hills and a foreground of silvered loch with the birches and pines showing black against a golden sunset’
Harry Griffin, Guardian Diary 1967 #naturewriting
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Enjoyed today’s ‘A Write Highland Hoolie’ @ Mallaig Book Festival
Gravity of Feathers, Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod
Alexander McCall Smith,
#StKilda #NatureWriting #Gaelic #Story #Humour
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Under Ben Dorain, autumn sun highlights texture, felt through onomatopoetic prose of Duncan Ban MacIntyre:
“Gu stobanach stacanach
Slocanach laganach
Cnocanach cnapanach
Caiteanach ròmach,
Pasganach badanach
Bachlagach bòidheach”
(Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain)
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Lovely blog on the stars, specifically the Pleiades - which if you are like me and look at stars but often forget their names, is one you've definitely been trying to remember recently
martinbr.bsky.social Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 17d
November arrives with bare trees, early sunsets and darkness, inviting us to do what humans have always done when the days grow short: gather close and tell stories …
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Samhain greetings ...
November: The Season of Samhain & Story

My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination

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#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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November arrives with bare trees, early sunsets and darkness, inviting us to do what humans have always done when the days grow short: gather close and tell stories …
martinbr.bsky.social Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 18d
Samhain greetings ...
November: The Season of Samhain & Story

My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination

fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
The Pleiades - a clock of time.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Samhain greetings ...
November: The Season of Samhain & Story

My latest on RegenNotes ... Exploring Samhain across time, Bronze Age, Romans, Romantics & into the Future through Pleiades Culmination

fairsnape.substack.com/p/november-t...
#Samhain #NatureWriting #Pleiades #RegenFi
November: The Season of Samhain & Story
The Pleiades - a clock of time.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The call of the Curlew catches the air over Morecambe Bay.

#charcoal #pleinair #sketching from Hest Bank looking to Cumbrian fells, these evocative calls, rising, falling, bubbling, quickens the heart, calms the soul, lifts the spirit.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
October 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Tonight the skies are red,
So red they fill my eyes Sundown on barren words that can't describe
Your island paradise

Runrig: In Search of Angels

Some experiences like sunsets can be transcendent, exceeding our ability to capture in language

#scape #skyscape #sunscape #naturewriting #BeaconFell
Yellows, crimsons, indigo sky at sunset.
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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BBC give @zackpolanski.bsky.social a five minute interview and our membership grows by +6000 in a day. Imagine how fast our membership would grow if they gave @greenparty.org.uk fair and equal air time!
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Something extraordinary is happening.

+6000 new members in ONE SINGLE day.

@greenparty.org.uk just hit 130,000 members and rising!!!

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Harriet, Zack, Mothin and Rachel
October 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Treescape of russet, whispering, resting, calming,
Liminal, forest, lake, mindful time and space, reflection and sensing, where
Fallen leaves journey on ripples, into, away, around,

💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 15/10 Windermere #Regenerative25
October 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Fungi and other finds from a visit to the Great Wood near Keswick in the English Lake District last week - particularly exciting to find Hen-of-the-woods (Maitake) which I’ve never found before, it’s not common in the UK. Pen and watercolour sketches.
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#fungi #lichen #plants
#fungiFriends #art
Ink and watercolour sketches of finds from Derwentwater, UK - lichen, acorns, horse chestnut case, honey fungi, grey knight fungi, amethyst deceiver fungi, hen of the woods (maitake) fungi and bonnet fungi.
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Light, the story within ...
Exploring Gaelic circadian expressions.
#watercolour #naturewriting
my latest #RegenNotes substack

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October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Zoom Regenerative: Myths we live by. Metaphor as a tool for powerful change. Tonight 14/10 8pm with Annalise Lewis
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October 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax #BlueSkyPhotography …
‘time in nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’

‘tha fois san nàdar’ #LearningGaelic
#naturewriting
Autumnal sunset from Beacon Fell, sun setting across grassland. Camera image has captured rays spreading out across the landscape. Grassland edged by pine forest. Words ‘Tha fois san nàdar’ translates as ‘there is relaxation in nature’ (in my very basic learning of Scottish Gaelic) Words ‘nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’ come from my writing. Image taken on Beacon Fell Lancashire Sept 25
October 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Psithurism walk. The urgent susurration of wind through ash, the rushing sway across fell-land grasses, the tidal roar through pines. …

#Psithurism and #susurration - lovely words describing whisper of wind through leafs 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
October 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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@rachelape.bsky.social hi, good to connect, was the quote montage yours?
October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Lovely piece from @amyjanebeer.bsky.social about those all-important, positive relationships & encounters with farmers.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: An unexpected vista of sky-light and symmetry | Amy-Jane Beer
Yorkshire Wolds: What a difference a few years makes – this used to be an expanse of wet mud, now it’s a precious chalkland pond
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Come the dawn, come the day, come the colours sienna, crimson with indigo, aerial isles under stratocumulus. Beyond the village cross crows arrive for daily gathering on bones of the ash. Are they feeling colours changing with seasons turn at September’s end 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
September 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Never seen apples so red & clustered as this. A result of earlier pollination & recent warm days, cooler nights. Seems neither have tits, blackbirds, thrushes who break-feast in morning mist. Below, fallen are pulled into natures soil cycle by earthworm bioturbation 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
September 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM