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Martin Brown

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Traveller on a regenerative journey. Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour Host @ Zoom Regenerative Writer: @ Regen/Notes + Author: FutuREstorative + Place: Forest of Bowland More at fairsnape.substack.com linktr.ee/martin_brown

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Such a wonderful cosmos connecting day yesterday, from ageless planetary alignment, community shared partial eclipse, capped later with Persoid meteors (yet marred with endless starlink satellites passing over) #DailyNature #NatureWriting 🌱
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Pre dawn planets align, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn shine, sun rises in the east, a silent new moon glides just ahead of her, through the day they will dance and eclipse at twilight out in the west. Crows gather. An owl greets the day. 12/08 #DailyNature #NatureWriting 🌱
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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 🌱
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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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
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The new eco-literacy: 8 thinkers on how to read the living world again
After speaking with some of the most inspiring ecological thinkers of our time, the ecological crisis comes into focus as a crisis of literacy. From Vandana Shiva to Jeremy Lent: these 8 people offer ...
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Reading 'England's 30by30 Delivery Plan to reverse nature decline' through a Regenerative Renaissance lens fairsnape.substack.com/p/sorting-na...
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Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I wrote about The End of Everything & I think the paywall is down so: observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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The visions of M John Harrison | The Observer
The End of Everything is a bravura, brain-melting sci-fi in which Britain comes under attack from the astral plane
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A song thrush's inherited song, and the ecological intelligence we've stopped listening for. #NatureWriting fairsnape.substack.com/p/no-mean-pr...
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No Mean Preacher
A song thrush's inherited song, and the ecological intelligence we've stopped listening for.
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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
re-generation.cc
The new eco-literacy: 8 thinkers on how to read the living world again
After speaking with some of the most inspiring ecological thinkers of our time, the ecological crisis comes into focus as a crisis of literacy. From Vandana Shiva to Jeremy Lent: these 8 people offer ...
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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...
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Ask me differently
what counts
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“The end of the field as we know it is the start of the estate.” Death of a Field by Paula Meehan (2005)
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
#WildflowerHour wild flower beauty seen this week, all bar one here in Inglewhite, Lancashire (Orchid in Cumbria)
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Feel the pulling of the wild: Abundance and Harmony Celebrating and Rambling #Beltane #RegenNotes
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Belated local blue hue for #wildflowerhour such a wonderful scent of bluebells in spring sun
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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...
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Composed on EarthDay 2026 in a Juniper grove above Grasmere
Field Notes from 'Where The Junipers Grow' - An Aiteannach
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#earthday26 #lakedistrict #fellwaking & time #Naturewriting and #sketching in stunning Earth-Scapes … An Aiteannach: The Place Where Junipers Grow
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
“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
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Thinking this is Bog Star, Parnassia palustris, the county flower of Cumbria. On Long Rigg, Haweswater Nature Reserve yesterday #wildflowerhour
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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
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Regenerative spring correspondence
words, relationships, interiority, a future for standards
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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
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National Emergency Briefing
Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Gorse … although not a #WoodlandPlants shrubs light up forest on Beacon Fell #WildflowerHour
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The earth is laughing in flowers … open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
#wildflowerhour #cowslipchallenge always a delight in late afternoon sun following rain (Primula veris … ‘of spring' ) #noticingnature #naturewriting
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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...
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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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.
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“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
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“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/...
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Country diary: It is our duty to delight in the dandelion | Josie George
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: These early spring bloomers are a favourite of mine, a model of nature’s generosity, yet so often ignored
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#wildflowerhour #treeflowers
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness". -Robin Wall Kimmerer
A slightly blurry photo of a small house situated out in the country near a river. It is tucked in the back left with trees bordering it. There are cattails in the front.
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Lap-wing, Flap-wing Black-wing, Silver-wing Dawn-lit, Spring Pee-wit 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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/...
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Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high
State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Comfrey ... Symphytum, knitting bone, knitbone, boneset, bruisewort centuries of medicinal use stories. #storyplants for #wildflowerhour
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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...
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Have you seen Jack in the Green?
Celebrating March
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Nature on Board? #NatureWriting #VoiceOfNature
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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...
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Wildlife to replace historical figures on banknotes
The public will help choose which animals and birds will appear on the Bank of England's new notes.
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“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...
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"Slowly I Have Found My Way In"
The Living Mountain, regenerative stewardship, right relationship, and buildings that restore aliveness
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Nature connectedness is not just about what we do, talk, teach, write about, but how we feel, think + value our place in the world, it’s who we are It’s in that moment of instinctively understanding our connectivity before we analyse it. Sensing before sense-making #DailiyNature #NatureWriting
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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/...
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Country diary: Wildcats are here and they’re on the march | Amanda Thomson
Cairngorms: Conservation efforts to help them are working – numbers are still small, but I’ve seen signs in the late winter snow
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The first of the last ... substack.com/home/post/p-... #spring #biodiversity #nature #loss #BnG #naturewriting
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
50 Words for Snow collapsed into a Wintry Mix ... further eroding our relationship with nature #RegenNotes #NatureWriting fairsnape.substack.com/p/50-words-f...
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Aliveness ... Living #regenerative buildings are alive, enable inhabitants’ aliveness ... creating conditions for connection through lived experience & felt knowledge through body and presence #naturewriting #regennotes #livingmountain #regenerativestewardship fairsnape.substack.com/p/slowly-i-h...
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Exploring, celebrating Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain How exquisite & sublime a passage, that through reflection has the power to shift thinking on regenerative, on biophilic design, aliveness & what are living buildings #regennotes #naturewriting read fairsnape.substack.com/p/slowly-i-h...
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Climate Fiction Prize @climate-fiction.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Climate Fiction Prize 2026 longlist is here! 🤩📚 This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga. Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Regenerative reflection, rethinking, realignment. Imbolc - a beautiful time to reflect on regenerative meaning #NatureWriting #Imbolc #regenerative #RegenNotes fairsnape.substack.com/p/regenerati...
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Regenerative reflection, rethinking, realignment.
Imbolc - a beautiful time to reflect on regenerative meaning
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“Yet even their sweet names bring pleasure: silky wall-moss, frizzled crisp-moss, comb-moss, glittering wood-moss or the rather weird flat neckera and wall scalewort” Mark Cocker #naturewriting on Derbyshire bryophytes, liverwort, mosses in today’s Country Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Country diary: Succumbing to the serpent of shining green | Mark Cocker
Priestcliffe, Derbyshire: The limestone walls in this parish are festooned with luminous mosses, in a variety that’s often beyond our comprehension
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