TheNatureKind
A series of weekly conversations with nature-lovers who live, create and act for the planet.
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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.
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The more I understand how living systems grow and evolve, the more I try to "re-wild" my mind.
Ruth Andrade from Lush's Regenerative Impact team, has a masters in Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies.
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Storytelling is a great way to fire up our imagination and ask those important what-if questions.
David Reeve is the co-editor and co-founder of Where the Leaves Fall magazine.
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In most ways, Sadeh Farm is my connection to nature. My Jewish heritage, nature, my ancestry, myself, the oak tree and the ash tree outside my window - it is here these parts of me intermingle.
Talia Chain founded Sadeh, the UK's Jewish farm and land-based community in 2017.
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Nature helps a lot with grieving, and accepting loss, change and letting go.
Born and raised in France, Alice is an artist and Modern Languages postgraduate student at the University of Oxford.
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Music and art is about frequencies and connections, which we get from nature.
Love Ssega is a musician and artist. His work as the original frontman and founding songwriter for Clean Bandit landed in the UK charts and has also been performed globally.
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That there are powerful and beautiful solutions to the climate crisis that have long existed and will continue to, whether world leaders choose to engage with them or not.
Talia Woodin is a youth activist, photographer and filmmaker based in the UK. She’s spent the past four years organising with various campaigns within the climate and environmental movement.
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The lessons the natural world has taught me have been many and are ongoing.
Sui Searle (she/her) is a gardener, writer and printmaker. She has worked in botanic, public, private and community gardens as well as having spent a short period writing for gardening magazines.
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I’m totally in awe of the resilience and adaptability of nature. I wish I could be here to see how nature adapts and takes back control of the planet long after humans have gone!
Judith Alder is a British visual artist with a multi-faceted practice, working across a range of media and processes informed by science.
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Nature is my syllabus and my art is born from these encounters. Nature tells me what I’m working on next!
Becky Lyon is an English x Jamaican artist and ‘artecologist’ exploring how art practice can re-body us back into the animate, vibrant, tangly messwork of our ecology.
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How is the river running through this city so blue? Where am I going next?
Ameena Rojee is a portrait and documentary photographer who enjoys telling stories about adventure, the outdoors and our relationship with the natural world.
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To understand the role and responsibility and kinship we hold in nature, we must first pay attention and remember how to love it.
Madeleine Bazil is a multidisciplinary artist and writer interested in memory, intimacy and the ways we navigate worlds - real and imagined.