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The World is a Spirit Vessel

At first sight, our modern age might seem to have proven this passage from the Tao Te Ching wrong.

Without Vultures

Vultures around the world are facing a crisis, and that crisis impacts us all.

Ex-Pajé

Perpera Suruí is a former shaman of the Paiter Suruí people, based in the village of Lapetanha, Amazonia, Brazil. Contact was first made with the Paiter Suruí on 7 September 1969.

My Garden My Kingdom

The oldest and biggest refugee camp in Iraq, which hosts 32,000 Syrian refugees, their gardens are more than just a source of flowers and food.

The Beautiful Horror of Plants

How plants have embodied the uncanny in art, literature and film.

Stories of Fluorescence

How fluorescence links nature and culture across the globe.

Confluences: On Amitav Ghosh

Welcome to Confluences, a column on art, kinship and life.

The Earthly Sensuous

The intense connection with the natural world that is felt by many autistic people would benefit all of us in the fight against climate breakdown.

Archipelago of Care

How contemporary artists are working with the environment to co-create with nature, bridging the islands in the archipelago of the human and more-than-human world.

‘You don’t know the spirits of the forest’

Davi Kopenawa is a Yanomami shaman and spokesperson and founder of the Hutukara Yanomami Association. His words rippled throughout the world with the book The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

The Garden as a Mother

Discovering the enchanting teachings of the garden: a journey of nourishment, gratitude and connection.

Gallery Examples

As Immense as the Sky

Meryl McMaster’s work explores the self in relation to land, lineage, history, culture and the more-than-human world. Her work is predominantly photography based, incorporating the production of...

Grown, Cooked and Served

Conor Spacey is the culinary director of FoodSpace Ireland, a catering company with a focus on social responsibility and sustainability that operates throughout Ireland producing over 2m meals a year.

The Mathematics of Nature

Through understanding the numerical designs at work in the world, I feel closer to nature.

Children of the Anthropocene

Instead of questioning the ethics of having children in a climate crisis, is it time we focused on creating a loving society and shifting our attitudes on care?

Hive Light

Poetry by Rushika Wick

Thirty Feet Up

Urban areas may be dominated by concrete, metal and smoke, but nature still finds a place to flourish. Ecosystems are thriving 30 feet above our heads, just out of sight.

Rights of Nature

A number of countries have passed laws granting rights to nature, but we should not assume that this legal mechanism always benefits the environment.

Confluences: On Ameena Rojee

Welcome to Confluences, a column on art, kinship and life.