The Nature Bible - wildlife/lifestyle journal, nature, environment

Children and Nature

May we raise children who love the unloved things

Candlemass Bells

Celebrating Snowdrops

Here Now is Winter

Winter, after all, is not so drear ...

March for Clean Water

A speech for the speechless

'Speak to the earth and it will teach you'

Nature as 'wireless telegraph stations'

Assurance

The comfort of nature, particularly during Autumn

Blackberry Picking

A poem by Mary Oliver

Changing Tack

A Sea-farer's contemplation

June

A poem by 'the poet of the blackbirds'

Dawn Chorus

A 14th Century poem for May

A Blackbird Singing

'You've heard it often, alone at your desk ...'

Gethsemane

A poem for Holy Week and always

A Country Contemplation

'Written in March' by William Wordsworth

Nature Trail

Written by the late Benjamin Zephaniah

October

'October is the treasurer of the year ...'

Idyll

A poem to ponder during our beautiful wet summer

To bee, or not to bee

An original poem on World Bee Day

An Easter Ponder

Reading Resurrection in the Book of Nature

The Fifth and Sixth Horsemen

The Bishop of Oxford's 'Presidential Address' on the state of our planet

Language Matters

A contemplation on the poor marketing of climate change

Hope for the new year

"I leant upon a coppice gate, when frost was spectre-grey ... "

Winter-Time

Late lies the wintry sun, a-bed ...

Biodiversity: The web of life that connects us all

Reflections at the start of COP 15

For November

'If I should never see the moon again ...'

Floral Tribute

Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage pays tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Queen and Country

Some reflections on our late monarch's views of nature

September

Harvest awakes the morning still ...

Heat? Pray,Love

The Lord's Prayer - speaking to Climate Justice

In Golden Stardust

You stepped softly into my heart ...

A contemplation on World Wildlife Day

Philip Lymbery shares his thoughts

Thich Nhat Hanh

Our relationships with each other and the Earth

Winter Trees

'Alert, alive and listening to the wind ...'

Saying farewell to another year

A poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

What the Clyde said after COP 26

A poem by Kathleen Jamie

Lion, lamb and dove

A blessing for COP 26

To Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ...

Trading Places?

A poem about the recent 'climate' arrests at St Paul's Cathedral

Walking the Talk

Westminster Cathedral reflects on 'Ecological Conversion' for climate pilgrims

The Ocean

A prayer for the Ocean on World Oceans Day (one of '26 Prayers for COP 26')

Hedgerow

A new poem by Pam Ayres in celebration of National Hedegrows Week 2021

A Man for All Seasons

Remembering Prince Philip's legacy to the environment

Easter Wings

With thee, O let me rise, as larks, harmoniously ...

The Blackbird

Ov all the birds upon the wing ... the blackbird ... do zing the gayest zong.

I'm January

I'm January bringing you, a year of days all brand, brand new ...

A Celtic Prayer for Advent

'May the blessed sunlight shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire ...'

Pause...for claws

"What is the river without its flow? What is a cheetah that moves too slow?"

Reverie

'There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore ...'

Celebrate National Badger Day every day

The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger ...

World Animal Day & the Feast of St Francis of Assisi (4th October 2020)

"If you have man who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity ..."

Harvest Moon - 1st October 2020

Signifying the changing of the seasons, the moon will appear bigger and brighter than usual ...

The Great British Beach Clean

"May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes ..."

Organic September

"O down in the orchard, 'tis apple harvest time, And up the tall ladders, the fruit pickers climb ..."

Creationtide

"The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations ..."

Big Butterfly Count

"To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree ..."

National Insect Week

Come take up your Hats, and away let us haste, to the Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast...

British Flowers Week

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

Summer in Slinfold

Time, marked by the chimes of St Peters' bells, Slows ...

Swan Lake

He will cover you with his feathers ...

Build me up Buttercup

Our meadows are now springing up with cups of sunshine ...

International Dawn Chorus Day

Open your window and let the symphony come to you ...

Happy May Day!

Happy May Day! And 'Fete du Muguet', when the French give each other a Lily of the Valley ...

Like a Water off a Duck's back

'All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was ...'

Earth Day

"Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better..."

Sunrise

"The secret to a good morning is to watch the sunrise with an open heart."

Easter

The Son Rises, the blind will truly see ...

Forest Floored

In every walk in Nature, one receives more than he seeks...

'Wood Anemone' by John Clare

The wood anemone through dead oak leaves, And in the thickest woods now blooms anew ...

World Frog Day

"The spring has sprung the grass is riz, i wonder where the birdies is...?"

Our war against nature is inevitably a war against ourselves

The first crisis is ecological, the second is medical...

Poetry responding to Climate Change

Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage's poem, 'Ark'

Super Worm Moon

This month's first full moon (March 9th) is known as the 'Super Worm Moon' as earthworms emerge from the ground ...

"The Climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all".

This saying from Pope Francis is quoted in a new book ...

For those in the grip of flooding ...

Many Waters Cannot Quench Love; Rivers Cannot Wash It Away

Joaquin Phoenix’s full speech at the Oscars

"We can create, develop & implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and the environment ..."

When another gale is on its way

"Storms draw something out of us ... "

The Tree of Life

Birth trees: When an Orang Rimba child is born their umbilical cord is buried and a tree is planted on top ...

For January

Live in each season as it passes ...

Recipe for a Happy New Year

Take twelve, fine, full-grown months ...

Nature's Advent Calendar

Open a daily 'window on the world' this Christmas and make a difference ...

'Green' Carols

Michaela Strachan recently shared these alternative 'Green' Carols by Huw Morgan...

Roots

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees...

Winter Sunrise

As the sun wakes up the night, Over the chill fields of white ...

Flower of the day

But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, from its hale and hearty green ... Charles Dickens

Seeds of Change

Fruits of the 'Cowdray Colossus' Sweet Chestnut in Cowdray Park ...

Quote for the month

October is the fallen leaf ...

Contemplation

How sad on this October day, to see our hedges shorn away...(Poem by Pam Ayres)

Dear Whoever

Dear whoever's listening to the wind ...

Quote for today

Humans did not weave the web of life - they are merely strands in it ...

Reflection

"So I will build my altar in the fields ..."

Quote for the day

Keep close to nature's heart ...

Thoughts

As seen on various placards during the 20th September 2019 Global Climate Strike, some messages to ponder...