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2024

The Natural History Museum: A guide of our gardens

Explore the new gardens of the Natural History Museum listening to poems and to scientists, Museum staff and other experts talk about the garden's design and the stories held within.

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The Art of Connection

2024-03-18 10:00
Garagem Avenida EAAD, Avenida Dom Afonso Henriques, Guimaraes, Portugal

A set of practices to open our senses and feeling the beauty of Nature, acknowledging the intelligence of the more than human world.

The Walking Body 5
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Sounds Wild and Broken: Nature’s Sonic Marvels

British Library
2023-05-25 18:00
British Library, Euston Road, London, UK

With David George Haskell. This event takes place at the British Library. David George Haskell is professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South and author of the acclaimed recent Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and The Crisis Of Sensory Extinction. It explores the sounds of an entire planet, from crickets’

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orming

Wandering without intent, meandering, walking with pleasurable aimlessness (English regional, esp. Lincolnshire; supposedly derived from the Norse word for “worm”). See also “stravaiging” (Scots), “daundering”, “pootling”, etc.

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