TheNatureKind
A series of weekly conversations with nature-lovers who live, create and act for the planet.
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Being surrounded by nature soothes and forces you to be in the present, to be still and simply listen as you speak to yourself: “everything is going to be okay”.
Darren Appiagyei is a woodturner based in London, UK. He graduated from UAL Camberwell College of The Arts where he studied 3D design.
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Being surrounded by nature soothes and forces you to be in the present, to be still and simply listen as you speak to yourself: “everything is going to be okay”.
Marie Smith is a visual artist and writer in London. Her practice incorporates text and photography as a form of visual language.
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Incessant thirst for knowing, not particularly knowledge but the knowing of the knowledge, how it lives in my body, in the silence or the stillness. And all the years of learning ahead.
Zayaan Khan is an artist whose work finds a resting place through food as a means of understanding the world, particularly seed, land and our collective heritage.
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Ask questions, trust your gut, and take good notice of where the sun falls - it will help you understand what kinds of plant to put where.
Alice Vincent started to share her journey into gardening in 2014 with Noughticulture.
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Currently my connection to nature feels joyful, relaxed, meaningful and a vital part of my life.
Jini Reddy is a writer and journalist, and is the author of Wanderland.
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The beauty and fascination of art invites people to think differently; individually and collectively.
Lisa-Marie Price is a London based abstract painter who explores the connection between nature, people and place.
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In a folktale, everything can have a consciousness of its own - even a mountain, a stone or a gentle flower.
Tijana Lukovic is a Belgium based illustrator whose artworks contain traces of folklore, mythology and a love for nature.
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I was thinking recently about how brilliant it would be if all future street trees were fruit trees and more public planting was edible.
Susanna Grant is a planting designer who specialises in plants for shady spaces. She runs Linda, a dappled courtyard space in London’s Hackney.
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Nature heals, my grandmother used to say. Whenever you are low, turn to her, listen to her, she will heal you. To this day, I follow her advice. Nature is teacher, healer.
Masha Karpushina is a Moscow born, London-raised illustrator and mural artist interested in the real and the surreal.
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I’m trying to be a better daughter to nature. For a long time, our relationship was very one sided – nature did all the giving.
Ellen is a public speaker, activist and guerrilla gardener who founded Nature is a Human Right, the campaign to make access to green space a universal right.
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Photography shapes what is viewed as important, what is desirable and what is beautiful. By changing the images that we are exposed to we influence the way we understand the world.
Will is a photographer, producer and director who works across several fields from music photography to commercial film production.
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I feel like living in such a fast-paced world, there’s always something keeping me distracted from myself. Nature and growing has helped me refocus and pause.
Niellah Arboine is a writer, editor and broadcaster born and raised in south London. She is an original member of gal-dem and the deputy editor at Where the Leaves Fall.