I keep thinking of Gary Snyder's last lines in For the Children: To climb these coming crests one word to you, to you and your children: stay together learn the flowers go light. In that vein, here are a lovely pair of western blue clematis. More in alt. #flowers #flowerphotography #nature

Congratulations to @globalecoguy.bsky.social for this well deserved award. He is, indeed, a stellar communicator and @projectdrawdown.bsky.social has a lot of stellar — and often surprising — information to communicate. #climate #science 🌿

I’m back in beautiful #BritishColumbia on a tiny island with gorgeous views over the gulf. Plus an unbelievable amount of #moss. I love rainforests. #naturephotography #nature 🌿

To love trees, and drawing, and hail from New York, all of which I do, is to love this wondrous tree alphabet from @katieholten.bsky.social #art #trees #nature 🌿

I once unexpectedly found myself celebrating Samhain. An ancient rite in an agrarian world, Samhain was an important time, both harvest celebration and shield against the coming darkness. It has shed its holiness now to become Halloween. shorturl.at/EM6ci #nature #naturewriting #mondayblogs 🌿

I can’t fathom how the fossil fuel industry keeps cynically, perhaps even gleefully for all we know, digging its own grave and ours. All to be fleetingly richer. It’s so obvious that the future belongs to those on the road to countering climate change. #climate #environment 🌿 shorturl.at/k10OX

I'm not there this year, but I'm pretty sure that the aspen trees in the eastern Sierra have become so golden that the air itself is toned with it. #naturephotography #trees #California 🌿

Despite their devastation, without forest fires there would one day be no forest. We live with both beauty and terror on this very alive, gorgeous, and challenging planet. #naturewriting #nature #forest #trees #wildflowers #mondayblogs 🌿 shorturl.at/KDb6N

A few years ago there was a northern #Idaho super bloom. I was visiting my son and found these exquisite fairy bells. They bloom at home, too, but these were the largest, loveliest, and most luminous I've ever seen. #wildflowers #nativeplants #flowers #forest #naturephotography 🌿

I love this! She was the best of us. It’s so hard to see the great souls go, especially in this time. #JaneGoodall

After a day full of wildfire smoke, rain, and dramatic clouds, caught the last light on Mt Shasta toward the end of a long drive home yesterday. #landscapephotography #naturephotography 🌿

I would love to get the hashtag #blessedunrest going (after the book by Paul Hawken.) To celebrate, in the face of all the madness, the quiet (or not) voices and actions all over the world that are conserving the good and repairing the shattered. #environment #nature 🌿

I agree! Tho my writing focuses on repairing our relationship with nature, I’m all for also focusing on @projectdrawdown.bsky.social ‘s practical list: green housing, diet, food production & waste, indigenous land management, educating girls, supporting women smallholders worldwide, etc. #climate 🌿

Women grow 70% of food worldwide, mostly on small farms . But they don’t have the same access to resources and rights as men do. With that access (@projectdrawdown.bsky.social solution #62) their yield would rise by up to 30%, limiting deforestation for more land. shorturl.at/QunEs #climate 🌿

Seeds are brilliant! “It shows the resilience of nature, that seeds have evolved to last [more than 1000 years]. It’s not rewilding, it’s not restoration, it’s resurrection. If you want to recreate a woodland you’ve got to…plant trees. Here it’s all ready to go…just add water.” shorturl.at/5UbN5 🌿

This gorgeous Mentzelia albicaulis was growing out of dry, rocky ground at the end of August near the newly freed #KlamathRiver. What a trooper! I discovered when I went back to take more pix that it closes in the heat of the day. #naturephotography #flowerphotography #flowers #nativeplants 🌿

@projectdrawdown.bsky.social launch of Shift inspired a visit to my early experience with it. PD's list of 100 solutions to global warming is full of hope, action, and jaw-dropping surprises. My unusually tidy refrigerator plays a big part. shorturl.at/seZrD #mondayblogs #naturewriting #climate 🌿

Thoughtful thread. Lots of environmental writing, including my own, focuses on the deep interconnectedness of the natural world, including us.The opposite of our current politics and the engines of capitalism. Given that, fostering connection is political, even subversive. #environment #nature 🌿

I agree. For example, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social found that both educating girls and making birth control available produced the #1 carbon reducer. Practical, humane, concrete, productive. Addressing climate and social justice at the same time. #climate #environment 🌿

This is great! Easy, fun, informative, transformative. I’ve been inspired by @projectdrawdown.bsky.social since it was launched almost 10 years ago. Still going strong and innovating all along the way, laser focused on available solutions. #climate #environment 🌿

This is a spectacular thread. A keeper for encouragement and solace. Because it’s happening all over the world despite the dreadful backward lurch we are dealing with. I love Paul Hawken’s name for this: the Blessed Unrest, working away, day after day, year after year by 3s, 5s, 100s #environment 🌿

I love anything that points to how deeply interrelated all of Earth’s beings are. And this comment on the article (free to read): “nature acknowledges the value of diversity, inclusion, and immigration of microorganisms...” Always! shorturl.at/zDrUC #nature #trees #microbes 🌿

Do you need a break full of beauty? For this year's #SeasonofCreation I've gathered a bouquet of flowers and their poetry. Our most beautiful beings, full of mystery, wisdom, and power, miracles of seeds and fruiting. shorturl.at/lZKn4 #flowers #naturephotography #naturewriting #mondayblogs 🌿

A saving grace in the new onslaught on the Tongass. “The Tlingit have long considered Admiralty Island, or Kootznoowoo, as sacred ground – a place of spiritual significance, ancestral knowledge and connection to a traditional subsistence lifestyle.” shorturl.at/bpIUN #forest #nature #environment 🌿

More trees! Instead of the immense expense of hiring more police and jailing people, “The city only spent about $5 per square meter to green each lot. For a 29 percent reduction in gun violence, that’s a pretty amazing return on investment.” shorturl.at/eEQ5e #trees #cityplanning #environment 🌿

I’m in New Hampshire for the first time in many years, grateful, in this whirling world, that some things don’t change. #landscapephotography

One May morning I walked into a forest of checkerspot #butterflies. They were clustered on flowers so I wondered if they had just emerged from their chrysalises and were hungry. Or perhaps they were migrating. The next day they had flown off. #butterflyweek #insects #naturephotography #nature 🌿

What can I say? This spotted owl was 7 weeks old, not nearly time to learn to read. It was so curious about me I thought it was going to land on my head but instead it landed on the sign and studied me so long it finally fell asleep. #OwlAwarenessDay #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay #birds #owls 🌿

I'm spending the weekend immersed in beauty for a flowery post on my website. I came across this quote from Monet: "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." Which immediately made me think of this waterlily, boldly shouldering its pad out of the way. #flowers #nature #naturephotography 🌿

I woke up to find a mouse in my bedroom. It reminded me of how adorable I find them when they’re not in my house. This tiny one crossed my path in my favorite canyon last year. It stayed long enough to pose for a photo and so made it into my #perpetualjournal. #sciart #wildlife #nature 🌿

"We, and the land we garden or farm, are active participants in Earth’s life. We continue to evolve the living world through our gardens. And now, the genius of one committed man has made that much easier." shorturl.at/6X1dh #gardening #nativeplants #insects #wildlife #naturewriting #mondayblogs

For those of us who have spent time regenerating landscapes, keeping up with the land @irishrainforest.bsky.social is bringing back to life is sheer pleasure. Especially since he's doing all the work! I love how he says he lives 'with' his land, not 'on' it. #environment #ecology #plants #nature 🌿

A few years ago, I joined #JoannaMacy, who died Saturday, for a weekend of #TheWorkThatReconnects. It turned out to be the last time she taught in person, and I feel so blessed to have had that extraordinary time in her wise, vibrant presence. shorturl.at/iHZGl #Mondayblogs #ecology #environment 🌿

"Don’t apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity, of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal." Thank you, Joanna Macy (5/2/29—7/19/25), for blessing us with your presence. shorturl.at/C2Kww

Crucial to the protection of biodiversity, “Our public lands nurture wildlife, sustain drinking water, offer sublime scenery, protect cultural and historic landmarks, and replenish our spirits.” We need to protect and cherish these profoundest of gifts. #insects #invertebrates 🌿

Fascinating history of solar energy’s unstoppable spread by national treasure @billmckibben.bsky.social. My favorite detail: solar panels are now part of dowries in Pakistan. Despite the backward lurch in the U.S., renewable energy is set to outcompete fossil fuel worldwide. #climate #environment 🌿

“They reconnect with their own brilliance, they reconnect with their own intelligence. It’s routine to hear...‘I didn’t think I was smart and I’m realising I’m doing science’. [With] hands-on learning and...academic components...people find themselves saying. ‘I can do this too.’” shorturl.at/ogR31

"Creativity and invention are alive and thriving, even as the loudest news is the most dire. Despite the noise, there are millions of people worldwide quietly working toward the Charter’s vision. Including Earth Charter organization itself." short-link.me/16T0a #activism #justice #environment 🌿

One twilit June evening 20+ years ago I stood at the edge of a meadow that was alive with 1000s of #fireflies lighting just above the grasses. Utter magic! Would it happen today? Like too many insects, fireflies are flickering out. We can help, as @chasingbugs.com shows here. #nature #insects 🌿

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain— All, all the stretch of these great green states— And make America again! ~Langston Hughes~

We all need this note from @globalecoguy.bsky.social to his great @projectdrawdown.bsky.social team. 🌿

I love to #getoutside. A magical trip up the Dempster Highway in #Yukon late one August. The next day an icy snowstorm blew in. We just made it. #blueskyartshow #nature #naturephotography 🌿

Always match your #moth to your outfit! Two co-evolutionary beauties—a painted schinia and a gaillardia—offer timeless fashion advice for #PollinatorWeek. Moths, being mostly nocturnal, are the hidden heroes of flower & crop pollination. #butterfly #moth #insects #flowers #naturephotography 🌿

As annoying as the biters, stingers, and #garden eaters can be, a thriving, living Earth stands on #insects tiny legs. Great suggestions for how we can foster #bugs, including good advice on planting #nativeplants for those just starting. #gardening #nature #environment 🌿 shorturl.at/YQdsO

It's #PollinatorWeek! You can thank this one for chocolate. We don't think of flies as #pollinators, but they are second only to bees, pollinating flowers & over 100 crops, including cacao trees. As they stop for nectar, the hairs on their bodies pick up pollen and carry it on. #insects #flowers 🌿

To look ahead is human. To plan ahead is divine. Bravo Copenhagen! #climate #environment #nature 🌿

I love this! “Huge swaths of the city encased in concrete have been restored to their natural state.” Greening cities makes them more beautiful, increases biodiversity, cools and cleans the air, offers flood protection, and makes inhabitants much happier. shorturl.at/f7nkd #nature #environment 🌿

Time for some consoling #beauty — not only of the lovely wild geranium (Geranium erianthum) with its buds and seed pods, but also of the magical light of Alaskan summer. Taken at the Wynn Nature Center in Homer where I spent a few happy days. #flowers #nature #naturephotography #bloomscrolling 🌿

To celebrate #WorldOceanDay, a granddaughter taking wing at the edge of the #PacificOcean. May we fight for her future on this planet.

I ran into an old friend this week. I haven't seen a fringe tree in years and there it was, blooming like mad on the side of the road. A glorious, small-scale, eastern US native tree. So lovely, light-catching, and implausible. #flowers #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #gardens #naturephotography 🌿