Links to Resources

Walking in the Woods: Go back to Nature With the Japanese Way of Shinrin-Yoku – Yoshifumi Miyazaki
Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing, Qing Li
Nature Fix, Florence Williams
The Salt Path (2018), The Wild Silence (2020) and Landlines (2022) - Raynor Winn
Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simmard
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Lost Rainforests of Britain, Guy Shrubsole
We Will Not Be Saved, Nemonte Nenquimo
This Book is a Plant, Eduardo Navarro
The Overstory, Richard Powers

Wild Geese - Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.