That sentence or story or picture will be yours: your unique response to the world. But you will catch your breath and be quietly amazed at what you’ve created. It might be beauty, it might be insight, it might be as simple as two lines that perfectly capture the bird you glimpsed flying by. But at other times it will resonate with a rare quality. Something a bit frowsy, a bit lop-sided, a bit ramshackle at times. A sandpit for exploring your responses to the world. Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world s most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports. That’s not a journal, that’s a rod for your back.Ī journal should be a playful, helpful, adventurous, extension of yourself. Perhaps an eclectic mixture of many things and approaches, each reflecting your mood at the time?īut a journal should never be an onerous chore, one that you feel under pressure to complete every day, or that you feel needs to contain only perfect pictures or writing. It’s up to you how sketchy or finished, how true-to-life or drawn-from-memory your nature journaling will be. But sketches from memory – in words or pictures - can capture the essence of something, or perhaps what it means to you, far more truthfully than a carefully observed transcription at the time. Nature journals can contain carefully composed pages and finely-wrought, detailed pictures, painted with true-to-life colours. Mine ranges from the personal to the scientific, from records of facts and realistic images to imagined beasts, scenes and stories. A nature journal can also be used to compile species sightings and other more scientific observations that are of great value to citizen science projects.Ī journal can be anything you want it to be.
The entries in your journal can give you inspiration for other creative projects, such as writing, painting, textiles, music, other crafts… the opportunities are endless. A journal allows you to capture the moment (a sunset, a view, a critter, a flower, a fungus…), and recall observations which would otherwise be forgotten.
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