TheNatureKind
A series of weekly conversations with nature-lovers who live, create and act for the planet.
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Nature has taught me that our connection, our interdependence - with each other, with all living things - is infinite, unquestionable and sacred.
Claire Ratinon is an organic food grower and writer based in East Sussex.
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I’m inspired everyday by the trees in my local forest, and the miracle that is growing food.
Rosanna Morris' linocut and woodcut illustrations are traditional yet contemporary, delicately floral and yet full of the power and strength of revolution.
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The world is so complex and fascinating, there’s so much to discover.
Joanna Ayre is a freelance marketing consultant and owner of an allotment plot in a local community garden where she enjoys growing her own food.
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I feel most at ease wherever my family are. In our present time of climate crisis, I feel the places I inhabit with my loved ones are where I feel most human.
Tej is the assistant food grower and The Seed Saving Network coordinator at OmVed Gardens, a gardener, scholar and interdisciplinary artist.
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I just try to celebrate nature, I have a tree I talk to every day, and I try to go to the river early every morning - nothing strict.
Moïse Polobi is a 69-year-old musician from Guadeloupe. He’s been singing and sounding his djembé-like Gwo ka drums since childhood, heart-beating the memory of his ancestors.
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At some point the people lost their way and began classifying people, plants and creatures into worthy and unworthy, wild and tame.
Naomi researches how dynamic cultures interact with food and farming practices through migration.
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Everything in nature exists in a balance; there's deviation but everything always has a push to return towards that balance. It's harmony in nature that exists in good music too.
Louis VI aims to help give BIPOC communities a voice on climate justice. The London rapper and climate activist is directly challenging the colonial legacy of climate change.
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Complex life was possible because of cooperation, of mingling, and testing out how to best thrive together.
Randa has been facilitating foraging and wildcrafting walks for BPOC communities to connect with a sense of ecological belonging in the urban locale.
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I find my creative process is mostly challenged when I am in dialogue with nature, its envelope of diverse context, and that is best when I walk, trail, breath, sense and meditate.
David Behar Perahia is an artist and researcher, working on the seam between sculpture and architecture.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who was dedicated to building a business that improved the human-to-nature connection
Galahad Clark is a seventh-generation cobbler. His ancestors founded Clarks shoes, and he is now the driving force behind Vivobarefoot
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How well do you know your water - can you name your nearest body of water and how well it’s doing?
Easkey Britton is a scientist, academic and social activist, with a PhD in Environment and Society, her work is deeply influenced by the ocean.
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Accept the institution as a living organism and move away from the slick, sterile environment to view art, so prevalent in the art world.
Helen Turner is the joint Artistic Director of E-WERK Luckenwalde. Turner holds an MA in Psychosocial studies from Birkbeck University of London under Slavoj Žižek and a BA in Fine Art.