TheNatureKind
A series of weekly conversations with nature-lovers who live, create and act for the planet.
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Nature is very much a dialogue and one that is proving to be both beneficial and challenging for me.
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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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
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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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.
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.
Will is a photographer, producer and director who works across several fields from music photography to commercial film production.
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Billions of years of evolution have created organisms with amazing abilities, and this is an endless source of not only inspiration but the organisms are potential collaborators in designs.
Samuel Iliffe is a design engineer focused on the use of innovative materials and processes to address everyday problems.
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You can still see the joy and beauty in the world while fighting for a better one.
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.
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There is endless knowledge to take from nature. One of the most relevant pieces of knowledge is the relevance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystems and the significance of multispecies approaches.
Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar is a biologist, design researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Art.