Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi

@nanprize shortlisted “threading rak flowers” ThePeacock Room (Cinnamon Press,2007) Village of Red Rice: Autofiction: A love song

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

Poetry is the only utterly free space for language that I’m aware of, and that is what makes it indispensable to me, and also what makes writing it and reading it a political act.

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

The sound of a flying bee can cause a plant to release 20% more nectar with greater sweetness than usual in just three minutes.

#Flowers #wildflower #nature #plants #bees #conservation #flower #naturephotography #wildflowerhour #naturelovers #pollinators #botany #PlantScience

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

Elderflower: Midsummers Day & Night

In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play.

#Flowers #wildflower #nature #plants #bees #conservation #flower #naturephotography #wildflowerhour #elderflower #summersolstice

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

Meadow crane’s bill waiting for Buff-tailed bumble bee

I want to dance for the renewal of the world.

#Flowers #wildflower #nature #plants #30dayswild #dailydoseofnature #bees #conservation #FlowersOfX #flower #naturephotography #wildflowerhour #z

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

Comfrey & Bumblebee

Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship

#comfrey #twitternaturecommunity #wild #flower #wildflower #nature #plants #30dayswild #dailydoseofnature #365dayswild #bees #naturephotography @HowshamMill #natureinspired

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

Our indigenous herbalists say to pay attention when plants come to you; they’re bringing you something you need to learn

#Oenotheraspeciosa #eveningprimrose
#flower #wildflower #nature #plants #30dayswild #dailydoseofnature #365dayswild #wildrose #bees #naturephotography

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

EVENT

The session will ask: “How can we stand in solidarity with nonhuman beings and earth others in the stories we tell?”

Tickets:

https://t.co/Ek3Puy5XQA

#flower #wildflower #nature #plants #30dayswild #dailydoseofnature #365dayswild #wildrose #bees #naturephotography

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

“Through the grass, something is moving. Colour is beckoning. Cuckoo Flowers signal the arrival of cuckoos from Africa …”
Isle of Skye

#cuckooflowers #wildflowers #plants #naturewalk #nature #cuckoos #birdmigration #isleofskye #photography #dailydoseofnature #365dayswild

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

Buttercups at Dusk in May

Magic doesn't sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away…”

#buttercups #flowers #wildflowers #may #howardianhills #wildlifephotography #wildflowerhour #VitaminNature

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

“With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.”

Robin Kimmerer

#Geumrivale #wateravens #skye #flowers #findingthewords #wildflowers #wildflowerhour #VitaminN #VitaminNature #365DaysWild #wildlifephotography #refuge

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

Marsh Clover
Fairy Glen
Skye

“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world…”
#Menyanthestrifoliata #isleofskye #fairyglen #wildflowers #flowers

[BookCat @BookChatWeekly]

A rare 1923 Grimm’s Fairy Tale illustration by Gustaf Tenggren

Little Red Riding Hood
#FairyTaleTuesday

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us

Cyanotype on silk: Moth Orchid & Garden Stonecrop

#Hylotelephiumtelephium #Phalaenopsisaphrodite #moonorchid #cyanotype #naturewriting #nanprize #threadingrakflowers #botanicalart #flowers

[Martin Goodman @MartinGoodman2]

Here's an utterly remarkable tree, a Montezuma Cypress in the town of Tule, Oaxaca.
Over two thousand years old, it is the thickest tree in the world, 145 feet around.
True majesty. As someone with me said, 'Who needs temples?'
#thicktrunktuesday

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

@MartinGoodman2 Wonderful

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

“Maybe there is no such thing as time; there are only moments, each with its own story.”

Another name for wild cherry is gean.

#prunusaccolade #flowers #flowerart #naturephotography #threadingrakflowers #naturewriting #nanprize #spring #story #cherryblossom #wildcherry #plants

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

“Knowing that you love the earth changes you …”

#flowers #snowdrops #sunprinting #nanprize #naturewriting #flowerphotography #art #botany #ecology #earth #cynotype #eastriding #yorkshire #february #sacred

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

Poets Ivy & Salmon Barberry & Grape Leaf Anemone

“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”

#flowers #flowerphotography #flowerprinting #naturewriting #nanprize #threadingrakflowers #cynotpeprinting #botany #ecology #ecofeminism

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

“Magic doesn't sweep you away; it gathers you up into the body of the present moment so thoroughly that all your explanations fall away …”

Cynotype printing: Yorkshire

#threadingrakflowers #nanprize #cynotype #naturephotography #naturewriting #earth #creativity #morethanhuman

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

“A living language is continually being made and remade, woven out of the silence by those who speak.…”

Li Bai Garden, Chengdu

#Chimonanthuspraecox #earlywintersweet #threadingrakflowers #naturewriting #nanprize #flowers #flowerphotography #botany #chengdu #LiBai #cynotype

[Ruth Yada J. L. Satsi @j_satsi]

“We are human only in contact, and in conviviality with what is not human.”

“The flower, known as chorima in the Galician language, is the national flower of Galicia in northwest Spain.”

#gorseflower #Ulexeuropaeus #flowers #nanprize #threadingrakflowers #botany #naturewriting