Substacks recommended by Bryan Pfeiffer

Recommended by Bryan Pfeiffer

The Sudden Thing I Trust — Poetry

By Scudder Parker

Poetry of forest, childhood, loneliness, neighborhood, dread, rubble, family, inconsolable loss and improbable joy

Poetry close to nature and human experience.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

between two seas

By rebecca hooper

from an island tucked between the north sea and the atlantic, writing about life, death, oceans, animals, poetry and finding joy.

Powerful, beautiful, lyrical. Among the finest of Substack's nature writing.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

Nature with Hari Berrow

A newsletter in which Hari spends time outside and complains about it.

Iconoclastic nature writing full of ideas.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

HOME | Nature Directory

By Rebecca Wisent

This must be the place! It's a beautiful world and these writers and artists will inspire you with their love of our only home.

Fearless Green

By Rebecca Wisent

Owl in America || Notes from an American Environmentalist: chronicling the Trump years from an environmental lawyer’s perspective

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Nothing less than the fragility and beauty of existence expressed in some of Substack's most eloquent ideas and prose.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

In The Garden Of His Imagination

By David E. Perry

Where this photographer, storyteller shows and sometimes, tells...

So many dimensions of the human experience enhanced with some of Substack's best photography.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

Ecologist @ Large

By Dr. Bradley Stevens

Random musings of a marine ecologist on personal interactions with nature and other phenomena.

Science and practical advice from a veteran biologist writing about places most of us do not know — the oceans.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

Opposable / Photography and Stories

By Opposable / Terry J. Allen

Juxtaposed images drawn from decades of work and play.

The human experience expressed in paired images from a veteran print and photo journalist.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

Homecoming

By Julie Gabrielli

NatureStack journal, Building Hope essays, climate fiction, and my singing dog.

Easy By Nature

By Bill Davison

Exploration and insights into re-wilding your yard, neighborhood, and spirit.

Essays close to nature, especially birds, with compassion, detail, and intimacy.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

Seven Senses

By Sabrina Y. Smith

Seven creative explorations for your senses.

Expressions of artistry, creativity, and meaning — the many ways we might experience the world and nurture ourselves.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

a small spectacle

By MK Creel

Nature poems & short essays about finding wonder, healing & connection.

Poetry of beauty and intimacy, of pain and triumph, of awareness close to nature.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

The Crucial Years

By Bill McKibben

Working on Winning the Climate Fight

Required reading on the climate crisis.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

Field Guide to the Anthropocene

By Jason Anthony

A weekly essay/newsletter on the transformed Earth - as it is, as it was, and as it might be - that promises thoughtful, well-researched writing and a dose of pessimistic optimism.

Some of the most brilliant and informative writing anywhere on the human capacity to alter a planet — and perhaps change course for the better.

- Bryan Pfeiffer

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

Ownership, property, and what is lost in the privatization of the commons.

Chasing Nature

Recommended by Bryan Pfeiffer