Summer Sale! Get 12 placemat Size Mini Prints $50 value FREE with every order

Good Nature's summer sale starts June 22nd! Order any poster(s) and get a free set of Good Nature's placemat size mini prints absolutely FREE.

Twelve of Good Nature's beautiful posters to give as gifts or fit in any nook and cranny at work or home to remind you to get outside and learn about our plant and animal cousins. The prints go out automatically with every order of $30 or more for a limited time.

So you don't even have to ask. Perfect gifts for campers, teachers, birthday presents and looking ahead, a naturalist's gift for your holidays.

Art helps us connect with Mother Nature. Learn, teach and change the world.

You can take the first step toward a greener more just world for free today.

Just walk down the street and say hello to every plant and animal you meet. Break through the illusion they are separate "objects" out there and breakthrough to the reality we are in relationship with every being we encounter today.

Do you have a favorite tree? Reach out and touch their bark. Enter into a conversation wit him her or they. (Do you know what my pronouns are? Tree/he Get it? Tree/he I know that is stupid funny you are laughing, right? )

I'm off for a walk around Green Lake here in Seattle.

Hope you have a wonderful day ahead.

Here is a painting I commissioned Ram Papish to make about our family mascot the Pileated woodpecker. Our parents used to drive me and my sisters to the Adirondack mountains when we were kids and we camped in tents for two weeks in this forest above Indian Lake in the middle of nowhere.

Our folks were birders who would leave us for hours to the black flies and skeeters while they were out hiking and hunting for Pileated woodpeckers with their binoculars. And even though we didn't have money, I learned we were the richest people on the planet spending time outside like that communing with Mother Nature, hiking, swimming, playing Capture the flag, telling ghost stories around the campfire, singing camp songs.

It wasn't until my twenties that I really began to appreciate how lucky in loving caring family I had growing up.

So the Pileated kind of symbolizes exploring, and family, friends gathering together every year from the 50's to the 70's. And the big birds are a beacon for hope, right? Because in the 50's and early 60's they were rare, getting hammered by DDT like the Bald eagles. So their comeback story is also a story about our learning at the speed of life and seeing the interconnection between us and them, deciding to be a species that protects and defends wildlife. And not just a bird, but habitat. Not just habitat but ecosystems, bioregions.

That is how Good Nature Publishing was born, in a dream of caring for other plants and animals so much that Pileated woodpeckers are abundant now, in fact growing bird populations across North America.

What is your dream for a greener more just world? There are enough problems out there to solve, everyone can contribute. Stay curious, and unplug for several hours to let your mind wander, to look for life on the move, hidden in the cavity of an old growth forest tree.