Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 346 • September/October 2024
Nature, our teacher

In this issue of Resurgence & Ecologist, we explore the myriad ways we are learning from Nature, and how much we still have to discover.

Stephanie Boxall asks whether the built environment can ever be seen as part of Nature, in her brilliant Connected Life article ‘Building a relationship with Nature’. Opening our theme, leadership development facilitator Nicki Davey shares how Nature and its teachings have become firmly and permanently embedded in her offerings to clients.

Satish Kumar emphasises the power of positivity and why it’s important to stay optimistic with our content throughout the magazine and in the wider work of The Resurgence Trust. In our Arts & Culture section, Louis Barnard interviews Britart superstar Marc Quinn, who challenges us to see Nature as an ally, not an adversary, and whose plant-inspired sculptures are on show in his new Light into Life exhibition at Kew Gardens.

Highlights

Change Everything: Natalie Bennett
Finding flow, honouring the ebb: Easkey Britton
Principles of Life: Fritjof Capra
Nature: our first and best teacher: Nicki Davey
Lighting the candle: Satish Kumar

Featured articles

Change everything

In this introduction to her new book Change Everything Natalie Bennett shares her core belief that politics should be what you do, not what you have done to you – and everyone, she says, can ‘do’ politics.
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Finding flow, honouring the ebb

Ocean advocate Easkey Britton shares how, when we embody the movement of the more-than-human world, allowing the sound of the waves to move through us, we can reach a state of receptivity and deep connection with ourselves and our environment.
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Nature: our first and best teacher

A pioneer of Nature-inspired and Nature-based learning, Nicki Davey explains how learning from and with Nature can take us to a place where we can better care for ourselves, each other, the planet and the more-than-human beings we share it with.
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Lighting the candle...

When a reader questioned why we don’t step up and really challenge the vested interests responsible for the crisis we are now collectively facing, Satish Kumar shared a timely and gentle reminder of what The Resurgence Trust – including this magazine – is all about: positivity.
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Enchanting moments

Ruth Millington introduces the artist Annette Pugh, whose atmospheric paintings seem to explore what has happened or what is about to happen, and not just what can be clearly seen.
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Podcast: Hope Springs

Conservation journalist Annabel Heseltine introduces the new Resurgence podcast, in which she interviews key people from within the environment movement and explores what motivates them to do and achieve extraordinary things for humanity.
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Picture Credits

Cover image: Sovereign Bee by Jessica Albarn ; Change everything: illustration by Rachel Victoria Hills; Finding flow, honouring the ebb: Seascape by Angela Cameron; Nature: our first and best teacher: artwork by Lucille Clerc; Lighting the candle: Corn Bunting by Nicholas Hely Hutchinson; Enchanting moments: The Landing Stage by Annette Pugh; Hope Springs: Ben Goldsmith, photo by Annabel Heseltine.

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