Stories from the nature recovery movement
“Not only does something come if you wait, but it pours over you like a waterfall... You wait in all naturalness without expectation, or hope, emptied, translucent, and that which comes rocks and topples you.”
We tell hopeful stories
Nature is My Garden – stories from the Nature recovery movement is a collaboration between a lawyer and gardener from Australia. We tell hopeful stories of Nature recovery.
This project documents stories of land rewilders, restorers, investors and landowners, buying, protecting forever and relinquishing land. We seek to understand the motivations and values that are inspiring individuals in the nature recovery movement to purchase, protect, restore, relinquish, share, invest in private land for Nature.
We want to understand first experiences of Nature, and of gardening, and what continues to inspire and motivate, the project successes and challenges (social, political, ecological, legal and personal).
We also share our favourite Nature writing, poetry, painting, photography, documentaries and film - because we love it and it inspires us. We will also indulge in some of our own Nature writing and art, whether good or not, it is a way for us to connect with Nature (and hopefully with you).
Some of our favourite Nature story tellers
“To love a place is not enough. We must find a way to heal it.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
— Aldo Leopold
“But man is part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
— Rachel Carson
“To call a river alive is not to personify a river but to further deepen and widen the category of “life”.”
— Robert Macfarlane