Martin Brown

Step Up. Fallback. Labour. Rest. Repeat. … clear autumn morning before rain, pink footed geese skeins pass over, compass set to east. Recalling Karine Polwarts sky bourne socialists (from Pockets of Wind Resistance) 12/08 #DailyNature #NatureWriting 🌱

edged blue skies, white towering clouds hug horizon. morning light on browns greens, cumbrian fellside crags. song birds playing in the sky, air music outside, heard inside. train heads north 07/08 #DailyNature #NatureWriting 🌱

2 stacks. 28 extraordinary books. 1 shared purpose: to help us better understand the world around us. From explorations of changing climate to stories of wildlife, landscapes & people, this year's #WainwrightPrize longlists celebrate the very best in environmental storytelling. wainwrightprize.com

Morning. From this place wet with rain, Crows gathering beyond the cross, Chattering life high in the Ash, Rowan Birch Beech sensing autumn, Waiting, apples & pears in orchard 31/7 #DailyNature #NatureWriting

We have forgotten how to read the living world. How to understand soil, seeds, fungi, bodies, communities and economies as part of one interdependent web. These eight thinkers offer a way back. re-generation.cc/en/longread/... #NatureWriting

Reading 'England's 30by30 Delivery Plan to reverse nature decline' through a Regenerative Renaissance lens fairsnape.substack.com/p/sorting-na...

I wrote about The End of Everything & I think the paywall is down so: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

A song thrush's inherited song, and the ecological intelligence we've stopped listening for. #NatureWriting fairsnape.substack.com/p/no-mean-pr...

We have forgotten how to read the living world. How to understand soil, seeds, fungi, bodies, communities and economies as part of one interdependent web. These eight thinkers offer a way back. re-generation.cc/en/longread/... #NatureWriting

Four were asked what they were worth Water Dandelion Air and Soil None answered in numbers. #naturewriting #AskMeDifferently fairsnape.substack.com/p/ask-me-dif...

“The end of the field as we know it is the start of the estate.” Death of a Field by Paula Meehan (2005)

#WildflowerHour wild flower beauty seen this week, all bar one here in Inglewhite, Lancashire (Orchid in Cumbria)

Belated local blue hue for #wildflowerhour such a wonderful scent of bluebells in spring sun

I rest a while at a favourite spot. An umbrella of juniper bushes, all wisen, bonsai-like, above Grasmere. A willow warbler flits and sings. Not marked on my map, or mentioned in romantic poetry or prose … Earthday #NatureWriting 'Where The Junipers Grow' open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

#earthday26 #lakedistrict #fellwaking & time #Naturewriting and #sketching in stunning Earth-Scapes … An Aiteannach: The Place Where Junipers Grow

“Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.” Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac #NatureWriting #EarthDay2026 #OurPowerOurPlanet

Thinking this is Bog Star, Parnassia palustris, the county flower of Cumbria. On Long Rigg, Haweswater Nature Reserve yesterday #wildflowerhour

The River Brock is running clear this morning. I noticed it before I could explain why. I’d stopped at the bridge, the quality of the light on the water, the sound, somehow lighter than it has been. A heron watched. fairsnape.substack.com/p/regenerati... #naturewriting #correspondence

Great and long overdue conversation after National Emergency Briefing screening with Longridge Town Council this evening. We have a full public screening on June 3rd. Amazing the number of screenings planned … very likely to be one near you. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

Gorse … although not a #WoodlandPlants shrubs light up forest on Beacon Fell #WildflowerHour

The earth is laughing in flowers … open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

#wildflowerhour #cowslipchallenge always a delight in late afternoon sun following rain (Primula veris … ‘of spring' ) #noticingnature #naturewriting

SpaceX recently announced plans to launch one million more satellites as orbital data centres for AI computing power will destroy the night sky for everyone on Earth ... theconversation.com/a-million-ne...

The spectacular film adaptation of my book Underland is in cinemas as of Friday. More details at: www.underlandfilm.com Working on more screenings in Scotland, Wales & NI.

“Place a sprig in a can and hope for the best” On this day in 1957, following a nature - food documentary voiced by Richard Attenborough people phoned the BBC looking for advice on growing spaghetti trees. Results were not reported. 01/04 #dailynature #naturewriting

“Pure sunshine, they are. An instant tonic for a grey day or a low mood” Josie George #naturewriting in today’s Guardian Country Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Watching. From kitchen window. The tree creeper (certhia familiaris) creeps, weaves, hangs, spirals around the Apple tree bole. It was movement, seemingly of the bark itself, that gave away ‘ki’ presence before id of white belly and tweezer bill. 🌱 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 31/03

#wildflowerhour #treeflowers

"The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness". -Robin Wall Kimmerer

Lap-wing, Flap-wing Black-wing, Silver-wing Dawn-lit, Spring Pee-wit 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting

Must try harder …. Annual State of the Global Climate report … increasing vulnerability of a planet that is moving ever further out of equilibrium as a result of human activity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Comfrey ... Symphytum, knitting bone, knitbone, boneset, bruisewort centuries of medicinal use stories. #storyplants for #wildflowerhour

Have you seen Jack in the Green? #NatureWriting celebrating March around the Spring Equinox, when the 'land’s intelligence becomes visible, audible and readable again after winter’s silence' fairsnape.substack.com/p/have-you-s...

Nature on Board? #NatureWriting #VoiceOfNature

After yesterday’s drenching out across the moors, this morning dawns blue-skyed, and frosty-bright. Across the way, a copice of hazel catkins delights with glowing quinacridone gold pendants. #DailyNature #NatureWriting

Images of the UK’s wildlife are to feature on the next series of banknotes following a public consultation run by the Bank of England. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Slowly I have found my way in” … Maybe this then is our role, not in creating new ways, new technologies, but in stewarding the removal of barriers, stopping harm, repairing damage so living systems can restore themselves. #naturewriting #regennotes #dailynature open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

Wildcats & Capercaillie good news stories “Even if both species are rarely seen, knowledge they are here, and the little clues that they leave, whether tracks or feathers, are more than enough” Amanda Thomson #NatureWriting in today’s Guardian Country Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

6am and a glorious quartet greeting the grey dawn. Tempted to say ‘as a practice for the upcoming dawn chorus’, but these four aren’t just practicing - they just ‘are’. (And seems they started chorusing without the Wren who is a usual participant) #DailyNature #NatureWriting

The first of the last ... substack.com/home/post/p-... #spring #biodiversity #nature #loss #BnG #naturewriting

Hazel - a tree of wisdom and inspiration, that gives joy with early catkins - one of the very first pollen sources of the year and a lifeline for queen bumblebees now emerging from hibernation. #Wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social