In Conversation: The Messiness of Nature

The current interest in nature recovery challenges popular ideals of what the garden and the countryside should look like. It asks us to give nature a little more autonomy, to create messy places richer in life, and has led to some unease and debate.

With Professor of Environmental Geography Jamie Lorimer, poet and Head of Research, Teaching and Collections at the History of Science Museum Dr JC Niala, and Research Assistant at the Depart of Biology Tom Atkins.