TheNatureKind
A series of weekly conversations with nature-lovers who live, create and act for the planet.
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The fractal patterns that echo throughout nature constantly remind me of the inherent intelligence in all breathing matter. And to be slow but persistent.
Maia Magoga is a visual artist, cook and food grower from London, UK.
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At Omved Gardens we continue to be curious about the world around us and how we can live creating more nurturing habitats for humans and non humans within a nurturing world.
Karen Leason is the director and founder of OmVed Gardens, a garden, exhibition space and sustainable food project in north London.
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It’s difficult not to be fatalistic when imagining the sort of world that will be left after us, isn’t it?
Benjamin Tassie is a composer, artist, and researcherinterested in how historical musical instruments, tuning systems, and performance practices can be recontextualised.
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A woodland permaculture garden, damp and rugged, surrounded by hornbeam, oak and ivy.
Vicky Chown is a medical herbalist, forager and gardener. She teaches permaculture and urban food growing in Queen’s Wood Community Garden
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I am inspired by the depth, complexity and generosity of nature, and I am equally inspired to help others better appreciate these things.
Josephine Marchandise is the Head of the Creative and No Waste Kitchen at Omved Gardens.
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Nature reminds me of resilience. Nature persists; she rests and renews herself no matter how hurt she may be.
Oluwaseyi Oso is a Nigerian writer, poet, singer/songwriter, and photography enthusiast.
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If you got the chance to interact with any organism in the world, what would that organism be?
Kiran is a naturalist, conservationist and biologist-in-residence at OmVed Gardens.
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Poetry allows us the luxury of speech - heightened speech - about our lives, and our environment, allows us to build cognisance of those things that is to do with words and noticing.
Will Burns was named as one of the Faber and Faber New Poets for 2014.
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I use a deconstructive post-colonial lens to examine how contemporary visual representations of a hybrid black identity are emancipative in their nature.
Tamary Kudita was born in Zimbabwe while her ancestry can be traced back to the Orange Free State, historical Boer state in Southern Africa.
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We are inherently a part of nature, a truth that becomes evident as I observe people taking to the streets to protect their natural surroundings.
Alexandra Climent is a grassroots environmentalist, explorer, artist and founder of the nonprofit Endangered Rainforest Rescue.
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I love observing and drawing. Drawing outside helps me really concentrate on the shapes and rhythms in nature.
Amelia Rouse is from Barbados. While she studied civil engineering, her first love is illustration and she produces beautiful work in pen and ink with an emphasis on nature.
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Being outdoors, in nature, we begin to reconnect with our true selves. No longer alone, we begin to reconnect with life beyond our own, with light, and sound, and breath.
Kwesia is a young changemaker and the creator of the video series City Girl in Nature - on a mission to engage young people from disadvantaged communities to connect with nature.