In Conversation with Clare Walker Leslie
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2024
- Meet the woman who coined the term "nature journaling" and went on to become one of the most influential and inspiring nature journaling leaders - Clare Walker Leslie!!!
One of John Muir Laws' most important mentors and influences, Clare Walker Leslie’s book "Nature Drawing: A Tool for Learning" started him on his path to nature journaling when he was a kid. Clare has been teaching nature journaling for more than 40 years, writing 13 books in the process. She is a wise and inspiring teacher with lessons for our journals and lives.
Clare Walker Leslie’s website: www.clarewalkerleslie.com
Clare's books shown during her and Jack's conversation (in order of appearance):
- Nature Drawing: A Tool for Learning (originally published in 1980)
- How to Look at a Bird: Open Your Eyes to the Joy of Watching and Knowing Birds (2024)
- Nature Journaling: Learning to Observe and Connect with the World Around You (1998)
- Nature All Year Long (2002)
- The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, Families, and Classrooms (2010)
More books by Clare Walker Leslie:
- A Naturalist’s Sketchbook: Pages from the Seasons of a Year (1987)
- The Art of Field Sketching (1995)
- Keeping a Nature Journal: Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You (originally published in 2000)
- Nature Journal: A Guided Journal for Illustrating and Recording Your Observations of the Natural World (2003)
- Drawn to Nature: Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie (2005)
- The Curious Nature Guide: Explore the Natural Wonders Around You (2015)
- A Year in Nature: A Memoir of Solace (2020)
Some of the artists, writers, and philosophers mentioned during this conversation:
Jane Goodall, EO Wilson, Roger Tory Peterson, Robert Bateman, John Busby, Eric Ennion, Gunnar Brusewitz, Charles Darwin, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, John Fitzpatrick, Beatrix Potter, Andy Wyeth, Rembrandt, Lars Jonsson, Yo-Yo Ma, and others!
This conversation is so lovely and to Claire Walker Leslie, I am deeply sorry for your loss ~~~ I do hope that you will write/illustrate a book someday about grief - It was grief that started me on the nature journaling/drawing/painting journey as my father was sick and then dying and mother with ALZ - A book from you on this journey of nature I’m sure would be a beautiful, honest creation that I would be certain to hold closely - Thank you, Jack, for this opportunity to hear the 2 of you talk !
This is so interesting, thank you. In the UK, 'The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady' (nature journal for 1906 kept by Edith Holden) was very popular in the 1970s and 80s.
I, too, first discovered nature journaling through one of CWL’s books. The one that I have is a beautiful and colorful guide with lots of her journal pages shown for examples. It’s Keeping a Nature Journal, second edition. Love it! I also have been inspired by all that Jack does, and gives, and is for this community.
Thank you both, I have shared your tutorials with co workers and family. I hope that they will become more nature aware.
Oooh, my favorite nature journalist teacher!! Clare Walker Leslie's books were so important in my artistic life!!!!
Watched on line...from SW Ohio.
Thank you All, so very much. I feel privileged to have heard you both, Clare and John. Please continue all the fabulous work you are doing ! You are making a difference and it has a ripple affect!! Clare, I am very sorry about your loss. Sending you prayers for peace as you journey through your loss.💜
Many thanks again to you both and all who made this video possible.
Loved this conversation. Thank you. You are both making a giant difference. Even in Florida where we are loosing so many natural spaces to development we still must keep a positive outlook to keep going.❤
on the replay from Texas