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Poetry & Music || Nature Directory
This is a subdirectory of the HOME | Nature Directory on Substack. This sub-page lists publications that share nature-inspired poetry and music.
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Norway
Using objective details of our natural world as a lens through which we can understand our subjective world. And vice versa.
From the poet: Here is a good starting place. Anthropomorphism might be just another form of zoomorphism. We are animals, after all.
United States
I write about farming, food, creativity, and place, exploring how we can grow nourishment and connection in a fractured world.
Author’s note: I wrote this post about resilience when I wasn't feeling particularly resilient, but instead living in the questions, and the response was a collective "yes!" to needing to weave stronger communities.
Australia
Music inspired by nature, as by nature I am inspired by nature.
From the artist: Expressing through music the lessons I have learnt from trees.
United States
Looking beyond carbon reductionism to see Earth's climate in all its living complexity.
From the author: This post is not only about a one-of-a-kind scientist who is no longer with us, but a full introduction to the living climate and why we've heard so little about it.
United States
A celebration of more-than-human life and invitation to remember that we too are creatures.
Author’s note: This essay tells symbiotic stories and considers relationships involved in the pleasure we often feel when we encounter the fragrance of damp soil in spring.
United States
Immersive perspectives on the fine art of a joyful existence.
From the author: Start here. How we relate to our world is expressed in our traditions, those we celebrate and those we no longer notice.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Romania
The best prescription in the world is a daily dose of nature. If you aren't getting yours, you can borrow the best of ours.
Artists’ suggested post: Our two-room traditional wooden home was built in 1938, among the fields of haystacks in Breb, Romania. They have magical powers to get us outside every single day.
United States
From the artist: Here’s a great place to start.
Europe & U.K.
Lessons in healing from the Irish landscape: A newsletter of seasons and cycles, nature and women.
Writer’s note: Here’s the piece of writing that made me see that in vulnerability there is connection
France
My only near neighbours are my wild kin – birds, animals, trees, plants, weathers, seasons and elements...I write about all this.
From the artist: Here is a good place to start.
United States
Stories heal. This is a community for sharing stories.
Note from the artist: Start here; I am still learning what it means to let go and having a good laugh along the way.
Europe/Global
Moving Mountains is about noticing the small and the slow, living with unpredictability and instability. It is not about overcoming or conquering, but of living with and connecting.
From the author: Start here.
United States
On being exactly Here, where the rhythm of the pileated woodpecker stitches home the frayed edges of the soul.
From the poet: This roadside experience had so much of touch and texture, and also reached deeply into shadowy places in the spirit — I couldn't not seek words to reflect it.
France
Working through our entangled lives with the rest of the natural world through poetry.
From the writer: Here’s a good place to start.
Ireland
An animist archaeologist and artist writing from an ecocentric and decolonial perspective.
From the artist: This essay is an animist's intimate exploration of recognising and reclaiming our place in the natural world; as its subtitle says, it's been written in praise of the spirit of moss, trees, wind and rain.
United States/Nomadic
Exploring the relationship between Consciousness and Nature
From the author: This is the inaugural piece, setting the tone for True Nature as a whole.
United States
I’ve learned from the best of the old ridge runners, to slip into the woods unseen. Though not a deer hunter or angler myself, my aims align with those who feel most truly alive in the great outdoors. For we all belong to this beautiful mystery & must learn to let it fill our hearts, as if our very lives depended on it.
From the artist: This post documents what I love most about going off the beaten track ... and how what we think we’re doing and what the universe has planned for us can be two very different things.
Australia (Tasmania)
Wild and wonderful stories from a little Island at the bottom of the world.
Author’s suggested starting point: Here you can find a series of short stories about a walk in a wild place that moved me deeply. If you walked in a wild place, would it change you?
United States
From the artist: Start here!
Canada
Supporting healing through connection with nature.
From the author: After years spent working in forests and gardens, it was my son's forest school that slowed me down and started my practice of nature journaling and writing nature-inspired poetry.
