What is a nature journal? 🌱📖 What is nature journaling?

What is a nature journal? What is nature journaling? Two very different questions that are well worth some time. It might seem obvious, but it's important to ask ourselves these sorts of questions when starting a new activity. What do I want to create and what do I want to gain from the process of creating? In this video, I go over the history of nature journaling, previous published definitions, and share my definition of what nature journaling is and what a nature journal is.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 A brief nature journaling history
07:32 Published definitions
12:52 My definition - what is nature journaling?
14:50 My definition - what is a nature journal?
19:50 Is a nature journal always a book?
21:56 The Nature Journaling Circle

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☆ BOOKS IN THIS VIDEO ☆

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Audubon plates in Batsford's Poetry of Birds, Stephen Carr: https://amzn.to/3SwX2Dz
Natural History of Selbourne, Gilbert White (illustrated, in the vid): https://amzn.to/3SzeM14
Natural History of Selbourne, Gilbert White (standard): https://amzn.to/48sVe4x
Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, Edith Holden: https://amzn.to/48sVkZX
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The Peverel Papers, Flora Thompson: https://amzn.to/3HXhLeE
Wild Encounters & Wild Favours, Eileen Soper (hard to find!)
Keeping a Nature Journal, Claire Walker Leslie: https://amzn.to/3SE8AVB
The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, John Muir Laws (@JohnMuirLaws): https://amzn.to/3SWCNk9

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