Nature and landscape

videoNature and landscape
Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery chart the turn of the seasons
7 minutes

essayCosmology
Rivers of galaxies
What are the largest shapes in the Universe? The answer might be found in the most unassuming places here on Earth
Mark Neyrinck

videoNature and landscape
After independence, Mexico was in search of identity. These paintings offered a blueprint
15 minutes

videoConsciousness and altered states
What do screens depicting serene natural scenes mean to those living in lock-up?
12 minutes

videoArchitecture
A lush tour of Fallingwater – the Frank Lloyd Wright design that changed architecture
14 minutes

videoHome
Life moves slowly in a Romanian mountain village, shaped by care and the seasons
13 minutes

videoNature and landscape
‘A culture is no better than its woods’ – what our trees reveal about us, by W H Auden
5 minutes

videoNature and landscape
California’s landscapes provide endless inspiration for a woodcut printmaker
10 minutes

videoAnimals and humans
Join seabirds as they migrate, encountering human communities along the way
13 minutes

videoKnowledge
Why it takes more than a lifetime to truly understand a single meadow
11 minutes

essayFood and drink
The joy of foraging
Offering an escape from industrial foods, foraging nourishes the soul and body, but it needs democratic access to the land
Nikita Sud

essayNature and landscape
Laughing shores
Sailors, exiles, merchants and philosophers: how the ancient Greeks played with language to express a seaborne imagination
Giordano Lipari

essayHome
Falling for suburbia
Modernists and historians alike loathed the millions of new houses built in interwar Britain. But their owners loved them
Michael Gilson

essayNature and landscape
Land loneliness
To survive, we are asked to forget that our lands and bodies are being violated, policed, ripped up, silenced, sacrificed
Kelsey Day

videoKnowledge
An Indigenous myth and a geological survey elicit two ways of knowing one place
4 minutes

videoChildhood and adolescence
The unique fellowship between teens and young puffins on a remote Icelandic island
20 minutes

videoStories and literature
Robert Frost’s poetic reflection on youth, as read in his unforgettable baritone
5 minutes

videoArchitecture
The celebrated architect who took inspiration from sitting, waiting and contemplating
29 minutes

videoDeath
A hunter’s lyrical reflection on the humbling business of being mortal
6 minutes

videoArchitecture
‘I listen to the land’ – poetry and greenery intertwine in Emilio Ambasz’s architecture
9 minutes

essayMental health
The right to bathe
Water is a great healer. Can New York’s public pools and ‘blue spaces’ be engineered for collective hydrotherapy?
Rebecca Hayes Jacobs

videoNature and landscape
What it’s like to care for Yellowstone during its quietest – and coldest – months
13 minutes

videoBeauty and aesthetics
The grit of cacti and the drumbeat of time shape a sculptor’s life philosophy
11 minutes

videoEcology and environmental sciences
From helicopter flybys to trail cameras, there’s no one way to count a wolf
8 minutes