nature
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Root and Branch
Art & DesignNeha Kale profiles three artists who re-imagine ideas of kinship and ask us to look closely at ties that bind.
Keeping Track
Culture, EssaysDavid Whitworth explores new and old ways of seeing nature.
The Art of Nature
Art & DesignNeha Kale meets four artists exploring new relations with nature.
The Dwindling Glades of Gondwana
Botanica, CultureEssayist Peter Grant on the plight of Tasmania's endemic, and imperilled, Pencil Pine.
Backyard Adventuring with Filmmaker Beau Miles
PeopleBeau Miles's exploits include sleeping in ancient gum trees, walking 90km to walk and eating 191 cans of beans. Tanya Patrick finds out more about this curious backyard adventurer.
Attention is the Beginning of Devotion
CultureA musing on what it means to pay attention to nature.
Landscape as Protagonist?
Art & DesignAn exploration of what it look like when landscape plays the lead role.
City of Trees: a Chat with Sophie Cunningham
PeopleFreya Latona chats with author Sophie Cunningham about her new book, City of Trees.
The Last Glimpse of Garden: Landscapes and Death
CultureOn seeing plants as partners on the wheel of life and death.
Seeing the Jungle for the Trees
CultureIs it time we changed the way we depict jungles, from places of fear to reverence?
Writing and Wombating: a Chat with Jackie French
PeopleFreya Latona catches up with the beloved Australian author, ecologist and gardener.
A Love Letter to My Neighbour’s Ugly Garden
GardensFreya Latona's neighbour has a beautifully ugly garden.
Musing on Nature’s Mysteries as a Pathway to Mindfulness
CultureA celebration of the relationship between mysterious nature and the cultivation of the human spirit.
Wilderness and Garden-Making, Post-Internet
GardensDavid Godshall riffs on the relationship between wilderness and garden making, pre and post internet.
Helene Schmitz and the Sublime Power of Nature
Art & DesignPhotographer Helene Schmitz's work explores the complex and often violent relationship between humans and the natural world.
Nature as Metaphor
CultureAn exploration of nature's gentle spiritual teachings on the human capacity for renewal by Freya Latona.
The Nature of Revolution
CultureClimate change, humans and a big fat green revolution. It's time.
On Creativity, Isolation and Nature
CultureAn exploration of the relationship between solitude, nature and creativity by writer Freya Latona.
Meditative Photography in the Garden
CulturePhotographer Christopher Phillips is leading Photography and meditation workshops in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Mary Oliver’s Wild and Precious Life
CultureMary Oliver is a woman of the wilderness and one of America's most celebrated poets.
Almería: How We Made the Desert
CultureA thought-provoking visit to El Arbardinal Botanic Gardens in the Spanish desert.
Finding Nature in the City
CultureA meditation on finding space in an urban environment from The Fortynine Studio's Sarah Spackman.
The Dirt: Tamara Dean
PeopleA cup of tea and a bushwalk with highly acclaimed artist Tamara Dean.
Nature’s Typography
CultureAustralian explorers in the 19th century were struck by a strange and esoteric graffiti scrawled in an…
The Poetry of Plant Life
CultureFrom Epicurus’ garden school, to the grandeur of Versailles, to the crop of community gardens popping up…
Artist Sonia Rentsch: Weapons & Nature
Art & DesignWhen I think of still life art what springs to mind are 19th century paintings by Paul…
Are Our Minds Broken?
CultureA meandering essay on the human/nature relationship.
Conversations With Plants
PeopleWhen I was about seven years old my best friend and I did an experiment where we…