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The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh

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Robin Wall Kimmerer: The Land Loves You Back

16.12.2025 • 00:49:32

In this week’s episode of The Nature Of, Willow sits down with Robin Wall Kimmerer, beloved scientist, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, and member of th...

Kate Marvel Will Change How You Feel About Planet Earth

18.11.2025 • 00:41:48

In this episode, host Willow Defebaugh is joined by renowned climate scientist and writer Kate Marvel for a conversation about her book, Human Nature:...

Robert Macfarlane on Embracing Flow and Letting Rivers Heal Us

04.11.2025 • 00:42:22

What does it mean to move like a river and to live in flow with the world around us? In this episode, Willow is joined by one of the world’s most cele...

Suleika Jaouad on Living Every Day Like It’s Your First

21.10.2025 • 00:55:22

How can we alchemize pain into possibility? In this episode, Willow is joined by bestselling author, artist, and three-time cancer survivor Suleika Ja...

‘The Nature Of’ Returns Oct. 21

07.10.2025 • 00:01:54

The Nature Of is coming back with even more inspiring conversations. Every other week. All year long. Join us as we continue walking this path toward...

Esther Perel on Interconnection and Curing Modern Loneliness

27.05.2025 • 00:51:35

How can the way we cultivate relationships with one another offer insight into healing our fractured relationship with nature? In this episode, Willow...

Maggie Rogers on How to Protect—and Nurture—Your Creativity

20.05.2025 • 00:38:57

Nature is the ultimate artist—shaping landscapes over millennia, sculpting coastlines with waves, and composing symphonies in birdsong. In this episod...

Bayo Akomolafe: How to Move Through Chaos Without Needing Control

13.05.2025 • 00:40:14

What if the rupture of these tumultuous times is not an ending, but an opening? In this episode, Willow speaks with Bayo Akomolafe, philosopher, poet,...

Wildlife Photographer Ami Vitale on Why Intimacy Will Save Us

06.05.2025 • 00:43:23

In the season finale of The Nature Of, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale joins Willow for a powerful and emotional conversation abou...

Maggie Baird on the One Thing You Can Do for the Planet Every Day

29.04.2025 • 00:47:49

In this episode, we explore the nature of food as a profound act of care—with the power to transform not only our health and the planet, but the very ...