Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Wrote about importance of stolen night skies #NatureWriting fairsnape.substack.com/p/the-night-...fairsnape.substack.comThe night sky taken from us.looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time 020
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026“I have seen the comets passing I've seen, the fires as they burn out as falling stars I've been witness through the ages” From Jenny Sturgeon Living Mountain album 110
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Such 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 🌱 120
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Lovely picnic atmosphere watching solar eclipse with large crowds up on Beacon Fell, sensing the odd light at its peak, and, perhaps more so, the returning light as shadows sharpen again as if in recalibration 020
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026fairsnape.substack.com/p/the-night-...fairsnape.substack.comThe night sky taken from us.looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time 000
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Pre 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 🌱 120
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026edged 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 🌱 021
Reposted by Martin BrownThe Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · 27/07/20262 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 0144
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Morning. 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 160
Reposted by Martin BrownMartin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026We 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/... #NatureWritingre-generation.ccThe new eco-literacy: 8 thinkers on how to read the living world againAfter 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 ... 053
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Reading 'England's 30by30 Delivery Plan to reverse nature decline' through a Regenerative Renaissance lens fairsnape.substack.com/p/sorting-na... 000
Reposted by Martin BrownHelen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I wrote about The End of Everything & I think the paywall is down so: observer.co.uk/culture/book...observer.co.ukThe visions of M John Harrison | The ObserverThe End of Everything is a bravura, brain-melting sci-fi in which Britain comes under attack from the astral plane 13810
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A song thrush's inherited song, and the ecological intelligence we've stopped listening for. #NatureWriting fairsnape.substack.com/p/no-mean-pr...fairsnape.substack.comNo Mean PreacherA song thrush's inherited song, and the ecological intelligence we've stopped listening for. 020
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026We 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/... #NatureWritingre-generation.ccThe new eco-literacy: 8 thinkers on how to read the living world againAfter 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 ... 053
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Four were asked what they were worth Water Dandelion Air and Soil None answered in numbers. #naturewriting #AskMeDifferently fairsnape.substack.com/p/ask-me-dif...fairsnape.substack.comAsk me differentlywhat counts 020
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) 030
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) 1281
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026“Feel the pulling of the wild” a line from the beautiful Jenny Sturgeon ‘The Senses’ on The Living Mountain, inspired by the timeless Nan Shepherd book of the same name. open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...open.substack.comFeel the pulling of the wildCelebrating and Rambling Beltane 2026 000
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Feel the pulling of the wild: Abundance and Harmony Celebrating and Rambling #Beltane #RegenNotes 110
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Belated local blue hue for #wildflowerhour such a wonderful scent of bluebells in spring sun 2436
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I 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...open.substack.comComposed on EarthDay 2026 in a Juniper grove above GrasmereField Notes from 'Where The Junipers Grow' - An Aiteannach 040
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 131
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 040
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Thinking this is Bog Star, Parnassia palustris, the county flower of Cumbria. On Long Rigg, Haweswater Nature Reserve yesterday #wildflowerhour 1110
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026The 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 #correspondencefairsnape.substack.comRegenerative spring correspondencewords, relationships, interiority, a future for standards 000
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Great 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-mapnebriefing.orgNational Emergency BriefingFind a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening. 011
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Gorse … although not a #WoodlandPlants shrubs light up forest on Beacon Fell #WildflowerHour 0608
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The earth is laughing in flowers … open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap... 030
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 0201
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026SpaceX 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...theconversation.comA million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on EarthIf SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars. 144
Reposted by Martin BrownRobert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 31/03/2026The 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. 1211320
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 030
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/...theguardian.comCountry diary: It is our duty to delight in the dandelion | Josie GeorgeStoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: These early spring bloomers are a favourite of mine, a model of nature’s generosity, yet so often ignored 051
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Watching. 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 31/03 041
Reposted by Martin BrownBreezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 28/03/2026"The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness". -Robin Wall Kimmerer 1024241
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Lap-wing, Flap-wing Black-wing, Silver-wing Dawn-lit, Spring Pee-wit 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 130
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Must 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/...theguardian.comEarth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record highState of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat 020
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Comfrey ... Symphytum, knitting bone, knitbone, boneset, bruisewort centuries of medicinal use stories. #storyplants for #wildflowerhour 1212
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Have 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...fairsnape.substack.comHave you seen Jack in the Green?Celebrating March 000
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 14/03/2026After 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 051
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Images 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...bbc.co.ukWildlife to replace historical figures on banknotesThe public will help choose which animals and birds will appear on the Bank of England's new notes. 150
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...open.substack.com"Slowly I Have Found My Way In"The Living Mountain, regenerative stewardship, right relationship, and buildings that restore aliveness 091
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026fairsnape.substack.com/p/what-you-w...fairsnape.substack.comWhat you want to ignite in others you must first ignite in yourselfReverence and Spirituality 010
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Nature 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 140
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Wildcats & 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/...theguardian.comCountry diary: Wildcats are here and they’re on the march | Amanda ThomsonCairngorms: Conservation efforts to help them are working – numbers are still small, but I’ve seen signs in the late winter snow 082
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 06/03/20266am 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 071
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The first of the last ... substack.com/home/post/p-... #spring #biodiversity #nature #loss #BnG #naturewriting 030