TheNatureKind

A series of weekly conversations with nature-lovers who live, create and act for the planet.

I feel most at ease at the beach. It doesn't matter what time it is, just sitting and watching the ocean and listening to the sounds of the waves gives me a calm and relaxed feeling.

Kalpa Gandhari, hailing from Unawatuna, Sri Lanka, is the programmes manager and former translator at SeaSisters.

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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.
Linguists often use a similar kind of analysis to us evolutionary botanists when they are looking at the relationships between languages, building up trees of relationships based on similarities.

Dr Gregory J Kenicer is the author of Scottish Plant Names, Scottish Plant Lore and Plant Magic. A botanist and tutor at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
We've started the Natural Agriculture Learning Programme in the UK and Japan, and we have been sharing the wonderful benefits of Natural Agriculture with people globally.

Shinya Imahashi has been practising Shumei Natural Agriculture for 22 years. The principle of Shumei Natural Agriculture is overriding respect and concern for nature.
Contemporary art is strengthening our connection to nature because the more-than-human world doesn’t always speak human languages and are not always visible from human eyes.

Naoko is a curator of contemporary art. Born in Fukuoka, she currently lives in Oban.
As a future ancestor I hope I will have nurtured the spaces I’ve moved through, even if that’s through trying and failing and recovering.

J Neve Harrington is an artist from the UK whose work includes writing, dance & choreography, drawing, video, installation, costume and space design.
e are children playing in an incredible garden and we have the capacity to relate in more healthful fitting ways with ‘nature’ and each other through being open-hearted and humble in the world.

Rasheeqa (Hedge Herbs) is a medical herbalist in her community in Walthamstow, north London.
My life's passion is to explore the intersections of spirituality, biodiversity, ecology and cultural transformation so that we can step into our full human potential and co-create thriving futures.

Christabel is a social and environmental entrepreneur and the Co-Founding Director of the Initiative Earth charity

TheNatureKind

I feel most at ease at the beach. It doesn't matter what time it is, just sitting and watching the ocean and listening to the sounds of the waves gives me a calm and relaxed feeling.

Accept the institution as a living organism and move away from the slick, sterile environment to view art, so prevalent in the art world.

Linguists often use a similar kind of analysis to us evolutionary botanists when they are looking at the relationships between languages, building up trees of relationships based on similarities.

We've started the Natural Agriculture Learning Programme in the UK and Japan, and we have been sharing the wonderful benefits of Natural Agriculture with people globally.

Contemporary art is strengthening our connection to nature because the more-than-human world doesn’t always speak human languages and are not always visible from human eyes.

As a future ancestor I hope I will have nurtured the spaces I’ve moved through, even if that’s through trying and failing and recovering.

e are children playing in an incredible garden and we have the capacity to relate in more healthful fitting ways with ‘nature’ and each other through being open-hearted and humble in the world.

My life's passion is to explore the intersections of spirituality, biodiversity, ecology and cultural transformation so that we can step into our full human potential and co-create thriving futures.