The latest whispers from the wild
What We Remember When the Wind Rises
On wild weather, the things we try to protect, and the memories carried by familiar sounds There are nights when the weather seems to enter the house without finding its way through a single opening, when the wind moves through the trees with such force that we become conscious of their height and weight in…
The World Does Not Ask Us to Be Interesting
On wonder, the conditions of flourishing, and the quiet freedom of being There is a peculiar kind of weariness that comes from feeling we must continually become something more than we are, as though the ordinary business of living were insufficient unless accompanied by some evidence of progress, some achievement that might justify the hours…
The Distance Between Noticing a Bird and Caring Whether It Lives
On attention, compassion and what we owe the living world There is something deeply troubling about our ability to admire the natural world while remaining indifferent to the suffering of the creatures that inhabit it, and I wonder whether this contradiction begins long before any deliberate act of cruelty, in the quieter habits of perception…
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