Resources
We offer a range of resources to help you connect more deeply with nature. These include our coffee table book, images, nature connection postcards, reflections and poems.
Beyond The View is a pilgrimage through nature, providing reflection and insight on how to ‘see beyond the view’ – to connect with all things at the deepest level, aware that everything is connected to everything else.
It is a mystical book that combines evocative photographs of wild nature with prose, poetry and personal story. The book follows the author’s own journey through mountains, rivers, desert, rainforest, coast and sky; not only contemplating big landscapes, but also the small, infinitely fascinating detail that can be found in nature. It is a work of beauty that seeks to connect at the level of the soul.
250 pages, 30cm x 30 cm, Hardback.
Look inside the book
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Auctor eu augue ut lectus arcu bibendum at varius vel. Neque …
Retreats
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Auctor eu augue ut lectus arcu bibendum at varius vel. Neque…
Pilgrimage
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Auctor eu augue ut lectus arcu bibendum at varius vel. Neque…
Groups
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Auctor eu augue ut lectus arcu bibendum at varius vel. Neque…
Connection Cards
#1 - Expectancy
Setting out with a mindset that you will see something new or in some way remarkable, makes it more likely that this will happen.
#2 - Instinctiveness
Let yourself be instinctive and discover the freedom of following your nose, permitting yourself to respond to your curiosity and the call of the wild.
#3 - Engagement
Seeing beyond the view is not just about sight. It’s also about using all your senses to be fully immersed in nature, noticing how your emotions are influenced.
Poems
A Blessing for a New Day
As its name suggests, this is a blessing for the start of the day. The essence of the poem is that all of nature is good, whatever the day brings, and can bless us if we accept it as such.
A Sabbath Blessing
This is a poem about freedom – the freedom to be in nature. It is a blessing of release from the treadmill and demands of life, seeing nature as a sanctuary.
A Midsummer Blessing
Midsummer is a time of favour, light and life. This blessing celebrates this time of flourishing and draws on the peace of sitting beside the river on a balmy summer’s evening.
Latest Reflections
Beyond Names
Names are important. In the landscape, names are part of the culture, representing part of local history and with a meaning that sum up the character of the place – Lakeland names like Lingmoor (heather moor), Langstrath (long valley), Sleddale (flat or even valley), Great Gable (gable on a roof top).
The Beginning and End of Time?
13.75 billion years ago light emerged from the dark which the Greeks knew as ‘chaos’. All the ingredients required to build hundreds of billions of galaxies were contained in matter far smaller than a single atom. Matter was not flung into an empty void, but all of space-time came into being everywhere at once, born infinite but unimaginably squashed.
Rhythms
Life is made up of rhythms. There is an innate, primal connection between the rhythms of the sun and the rhythms of the soul. People of many religions and none understand that the movement of the sun and moon profoundly affect us on earth. Our calendars, weeks, seasons and festivals are shaped by these rhythms.