Learning some facts can be a powerful tool for understanding and connecting with animals. Following on from our conversation with Lee Putman from Facts and Fine Liners, let’s go on our own fact-finding adventure and see what we can learn about our chosen animal species.

I would love to hear your experience with researching facts about an animal. Did you feel more connected with the species? You can leave a comment on the Journaling With Nature website. 

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Lee is an artist and educator based in London. Weaving together fine art and storytelling, his compelling videos open us to the fascinating wonders of the animal kingdom.

Listen to hear more about:

• Lee’s creative history, including the development of his street dance and fine art. 
• Incorporating movement into art practice.
• Creating art that has a positive outlook. 
• Animal activism through art. 
• Storytelling and its influence on Lee’s life and work. 
• Telling the story of animals that might not be typically charismatic. 
• Sketching animals from life.
• Lee’s upcoming online drawing session for the Saturday Sketch Club at the Royal Academy.
• How interactions with other artists can help orientate you within your ‘artistic ecosystem’. 
• Communication through the language of art.

Find Lee on social media over on Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok.

You can find Lee’s beautiful fine art prints in the online store on his website www.factsandfineliners.co.uk.

Be sure to sign up to be part of Lee’s online session for the Saturday Sketch Club for the Royal Academy: Saturday Sketch Club - drawing animals. 

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Contemplating Earth as part of a vast solar system, galaxy, and universe offers a powerful perspective. Let's explore ways to use nature journaling to connect with our place in space.

In the episode I chat about the book Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Listen to episode 175 of this podcast where I talk with Kate Skinner about many things including the book Orbital. 

You can revisit Roseann Hanson’s field trip to Mars here: Virtual Field Trip: Let’s Explore Mars!

I would love to hear your perspective on understanding our place in space through your nature journal. You can leave a comment on the Journaling With Nature website. 

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Kirstie is a teacher and nature journaler from Alaska. Her career has led her through a wide range of teaching situations, always with a focus on respect for people and place.

Listen to hear more about:

• Kirstie’s career that has spanned a wide range of teaching situations. 
• The natural environment in Alaska. 
• The vegetable garden as a place of joy. 
• The story of how Kirstie came to nature journaling. 
• Collaborations within the Alaskan nature journaling community.
• Documenting the dawn chorus in your nature journal.
• The benefits and joys of garden journaling.
• The Global GeoArt Blitz
• The study of ethnobotany. 
• The human connection with plants.

To learn more about Seward Nature Journaling and the work Kirstie is doing in her community visit: Seward Nature Journaling.

To find out about the Global GeoARTBlitz, visit Rosann Hanson’s website here.

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Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe. Nature journaling offers a way to document these events while also capturing our personal experiences and responses.

Two nature journalers who document the effects of extreme weather are Miriam Morrill from @pyrosketchology and Robin Lee Carlson in her book The Cold Canyon Fire Journals. 

If you are interested to learn how to make a cyanometer, you can watch my little tutorial here.

I would love to hear about your experience of nature journaling big weather events. Leave a comment below this post over on the Journaling With Nature website.

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Angela is a writer, scientist, and natural historian. Through her writing, she celebrates the power of the local—what can be discovered when we slow down, tune in, and notice the subtle wonders of the world around us.

Listen to hear more about:

• How the 2020 lockdowns started Angela’s writing project that would become her book Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters.
• Angela’s writing process at home and while travelling.
• The natural history authors who inspire Angela. 
• Learning the flora and fauna of a new country.
• Connecting with individual animals in your area. 
• The circle of natural connections.
• The importance of appreciating the local.
• The art of strategic neglect in the garden.
• Angela’s new book Near the Forest, By the Lake: Discovering Nature Close to Home.

For more information about Angela and her work visit www.angelaedouglas.com.
Find out more about Angela’s book here: Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters.
Preorder Angela’s new book here: Near the Forest, By the Lake: Discovering Nature Close to Home.

Authors that have influenced Angela’s natural history writing: 

• Gilbert White - The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
• Anna Comstock – The Handbook of Nature Study.

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Spirals are all around us in nature, and finding them can be a joyful challenge. This week, let’s go on a treasure hunt by tuning into the spirals in our nearby nature and capturing them on the pages of our nature journals.

I would love to hear about the spirals you found this week. You can leave a comment below this post on the Journaling With Nature website.

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Trina is a science teacher at a nature-based school, where she weaves together science and art through nature journaling. By guiding her students in an immersive learning experience, she helps them explore the world while creatively capturing their observations.

Listen to hear more about:

• Teaching science in a nature-based school.
• Modelling nature journaling habits by drawing alongside the students.
• Learning from the expertise of the community. 
• Surveying stream biology during Biodiversity Day.
• Starting a nature journal club in your area.  
• Simple art materials that you can use on-the-go.
• Adapting your nature journal classes to suit children of different ages.
• Inspiring nature writers.
   

Click the link to find out more about the North Central Nature Journal Collaborative. 
You can find out about Trina’s nature adventures over on Instagram @treenswalton.

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Imagining ourselves in a landscape can be a calming and peaceful experience. What if we transformed these imagined landscapes into nature journal entries? These entries could serve as a source of calm when needed or even as the first step in bringing our envisioned landscapes to life.

If you try today's prompt, I would love to hear about your experience and what the activity brought you. You can leave a comment below this post on the Journaling With Nature website.

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This very special episode is a celebration of the life of Kate Skinner. Kate was passionate about human rights and social justice. She had a deep love of literature and the transformative power of human stories. Her warmth and love was felt by everyone in her life.

Listen to hear more about:

• The freedom of unstructured outdoor play in childhood.
• The values of social justice woven into Kate’s family life.
• Literature in the classroom and the ways Kate engaged her students in learning.
• The importance of landscape in literature and how it shapes characters and readers.
• How good writing can stretch past the limitations of our language.
• Finding lessons and meaning in literature.
• How reading develops empathy.
• Processing deep emotions through communication.
• Kate’s love of teaching.
• How curiosity helps us connect with life and with each other.

Here is a list of the books Kate refers to during the interview: 

Alexis Wright – Carpentaria

Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

Samantha Harvey - Orbital 

Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional

Rebecca Solnit - Orwell’s Roses

George Eliot - Silas Marner

Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge

Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran

Charles Dickens – David Copperfield

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

The celebration of Kate’s life that we talked about during our conversation was recorded. You can watch it here: Celebrate Kate. 

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