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“Wilderness is the geography of hope." - Wallace Stegner #naturewisdom #thoreau #muir #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturewriting #wildwords

“Earth laughs in flowers” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya #QuoteOfTheDay #NatureWriting #Poetry

A "Human Written" stamp will be featured on the front cover of Helm (Faber), the 10th book by Booker Prize-nominated author Sarah Hall, which will be published on 28th August 2025 👇 #BookSky

Just finished Moon Road by Sarah Leipciger… Gracefully written, hypnotic, and absolutely sublime. A must add to your reading list! #CanLit #LitFiction #Booksky

#JurassicJune 🦕🦖 #BookChallenge 📚💙 Share your favorite books containing dinos and/or prehistoric life. Fiction or Nonfiction, any genre 📚🪐 📚💡⚒️ #booksky #readersky #paleosky #sff #scifisky #scifi #dinosaurs 📗 The Fossil Hunter ✒️ Shelley Emling

I loved this book…! Bravo! 🎉 #LitFiction #Booksky

Don't forget, look up! 🔭🌕🍓 Why tonight's Strawberry Moon is a record-breaking, low-lying phenomenon we won't see again until 2043 #strawberrymoon #moon #nightsky www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/strawbe...

I can’t wait…!!! #LitFiction #NonFiction #Booksky 📚💙

It's escaping everywhere this week! Let me know if you see #LandBeneaththeWaves out in the wild near you...

My current June lineup… Which one(s) have you read? Or, any of them on your tbr too? #StackSaturday #Booksky 📚💙

#NatureWriting #Booksky

Thought to read a bit of The Flâneur today, I’d forgotten how pretty my edition is… RIP #EdmundWhite #NonFiction #Booksky

When The Sahara Was Green By Martin Williams — #Review, #book published by @princetonupress.bsky.social #BookReview by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #Nonfiction #SaharaDesert #GreenSahara #Geology #Archaeology #Ecology #ClimateChange www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

“Humility doesn’t announce itself. It folds inward. It pauses. It bends.”

Today a Post Office clerk told me they liked my lapel pin & it was such a small moment (maybe) but felt as though a little more goodness was in the world. I can’t believe this is 2025 but I’m here for every/any small moment of goodness. #NotJustForJune

Is nature necessary for writing? The Himalayan Writing Retreat explores how observing the inner and outer worlds can inspire creativity. #NatureWriting #CreativeProcess

Happy June! ☀️ #QuoteOfTheDay #Booksky

Save the date! #Booksky 📚💙

Ocean Vuong on Sufjan Stevens’ music… beautiful piece! #booksky #musicsky

“Churchill said democracy is the worst system of government—except for all the others. And I think there’s a lot of wisdom to that.” #RickSteves #Booksky

Stanford Department of Medicine’s very own Abraham Verghese with words to live by at the Harvard commencement (graduation) ceremony. youtu.be/m45Lqo5rUyQ?...

The treasures described in A Field Guide to Getting Lost, in pictures and words.....

Watch tomorrow morning (Thursday), 8:30am EST - @harvard.edu livestream; commencement speech by #AbrahamVerghese. #Booksky 📚💙

#NatureWriting

“His journey has taken him across the United States, healing patients through medicine and reaching people through literature, including his 2023 novel “The Covenant of Water.”” #AbrahamVerghese #Booksy 📚💙

Coffee on the balcony, with today’s friends… ❣️ #Birdsky #MerlinApp

These are the novels we think you should read this summer (a list entirely compiled by humans)!

To celebrate the publication of Moving Mountains in Australia and New Zealand, I spoke to Sophie about the challenge of 'just getting outside' when living with illness & disability (& when you'd like to do nothing more) #BookSky #NatureWriting @portyliterary.bsky.social @wearefootnote.bsky.social

New haul! 💛 #ThreeForThursday #NatureWriting #Booksky

The Adversary wins!!! 🤩 Terrific book… woohoo! #MichaelCrummey #CanLit #DublinLitAward #Booksky 📚💙

Happy pub day! #RobertMacfarlane #Booksky

Adding this one to my reading list… sounds great! #Booksky

I spoke with the brilliant @jonathan-watts.bsky.social about the experience of writing "with" rivers; about freshwater and life and power—and about hope as a discipline. www.theguardian.com/environment/...