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S2 E10 Jane Rawson: On Writing and Thinking About Nature

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Show Notes

In our final episode of the season, Mia talks to Jane Rawson, Island magazine editor and author of Human/Nature, about how to find nature everywhere and to write for joy even when everything seems doomed.

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