The latest whispers from the wild
What We Mistake for Seeing
The Questions Paintings Leave Behind — No. 1 There is something about John Everett Millais’s painting The Blind Girl that encourages us to linger, as though the moment it depicts possesses a significance we recognise without quite knowing why. A shower has passed over the countryside, leaving the grasses damp and the distant fields illuminated…
What We Do Not See
I once watched a man examining an old tree beside a footpath, and when I asked what had attracted his attention, he pointed towards a considerable hollow in its trunk and explained that the tree was probably nearing the end of its life. Several branches had already fallen, and there was something undeniably fragile about…
The Art of Listening
The Art of Listening On Attentive Wondering, conversation and the deeper meaning of conservation There is a subtle difference between listening to somebody and waiting successfully for our turn to speak. From the outside they can look remarkably similar: we remain quiet, perhaps nod, perhaps even remember what has been said, yet inwardly we may…
A place to return to the quiet thread that holds us to life.
Nature Speaks is an invitation to care for ourselves through a closer relationship with the living world, finding room for attention, imagination and creativity in our everyday lives. Through writing, drawing and quiet moments of noticing, we can begin to discover what sustains us, while growing more attentive to the places and living things that share our days. Care for ourselves and care for the world can grow together.
The wild remembers. So do you.
A quiet thread from the living world