#nature

#nature

"Your Birth is My Birth presents the duo's synthetic hair sculptures, which suspend from the ceiling of Jane Lombard Gallery and splay across the wooden floor like organic growths."

Silent Friend is built around silences and the steady accumulation of human and natural detail, feeling as if it's being told by the tree itself: omniscient, unflinching, yet shot through with an almost alien tenderness.

Watching the sunrise over the Maroon Bells is incredible. The viewpoint is a short walk away, with other hiking trails available to explore if you have time.

The Japanese Tea Garden endures as one of the most popular attractions in San Francisco, featuring classic elements such as an arched drum bridge, pagodas, stone lanterns, stepping stone paths, native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds, and a zen garden.

The Shiretoko Peninsula feels markedly different from the rest of the country, with winter drift ice and summer wildflowers, preserving its raw, unpolished character.

Steaming piles of abandoned dog poo littering our parks and boisterous dogs off the lead everywhere - it's a certain cohort of lazy and selfish dog owners that give them all a bad name.

The tram, completed in 1973 to bring skiers safely up to the slopes, ascends 300 feet above the Great Smoky Mountains and has carried millions of people up to Ober Mountain.

The horses were in full view across the resort boundaries, even getting pretty close to the lifts, captivating skiers with their unexpected presence.

Emanuel Heim's abstract paintings ascend through dynamic geometric architectures that breathe both movement and instability. His magnum opus, 'Die Suche 3' (2024), emerges as a psychologically charged canvas depicting figures navigating an ever-shifting landscape that merges the internal with the external.

Fleeting Opulence transforms the Winter Garden and surrounding spaces into an immersive celebration of the natural world, featuring larger-than-life flowers and cherry blossoms.

Isle Royale National Park is in an isolated stretch of Lake Superior, reachable via a multi-hour ferry ride or seaplane from Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Minnesota. The journey to get here keeps many travelers away.

"New York isn't real. This is real," says Jon Krogh, emphasizing the contrast between urban life and the rawness of nature in Greenland. He believes that city life is a fantasy, where people work for money that doesn't exist outside their imaginations. The experience at Nomad Greenland aims to reconnect visitors with the reality of the natural world.

Kangaroo Island is home to wildlife found nowhere else, including a soot-coloured dunnart, and has a human population so low that there are 14 kangaroos for every one person.

Allen-Paisant reflects on his childhood in Coffee Grove, Jamaica, where he developed a profound bond with local plant life, climbing trees and harvesting yams with his grandmother. This connection shaped his understanding of nature and belonging.

The New River Gorge's moist, shaded forests are an ideal habitat for flowers that color the hillsides in April and early May, making it an excellent time to see the gorge in bloom.

Wales has a beautiful roughness to it. Its beauty is not immediate and hard-won; visitors will have to trek, drive and withstand the rain in order to find it. But it's worth every step of the journey.

Ghana is home to me - it's where I grew up, from the age of four until I returned to England for university - but its contrasts always surprise me. Below, waves crash violently into jutting rocks, but those rocks also form a protective circle, creating a pool calm enough for a child to play in.

These water-women are beings of transformation, embodying sensuality, cosmic energy, and the transmission of matrilineal knowledge.