Wild With Nature

Welcome to Wild With Nature, a bilingual nature podcast where I share inspiring, immersive stories of birds, plants, and all the life around us!

This isn’t your typical podcast. It’s more like an audiobook, in fact: I write and then narrate firsthand stories of experiences and reflections about nature, from remote wild places to urban areas. And since 2023, I’ve been incorporating more and more of my audio recordings of birdsong, insects, and other natural sounds into these stories. Give it a listen!

Haz clic aquí para seguir en español.

I’m Shane Sater, a bilingual field biologist and naturalist.

You can read all of my stories on my Stories page, and you can play all of the accompanying podcasts in your browser from there, too.

You can also find the podcasts under Wild With Nature on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and most other podcast platforms. Look for a new one on the first of every month!

Here’s the most recent episode:

Keep reading to learn more about this project!

Wild With Nature

The stories of nature fascinate me. Wild With Nature is my way of celebrating and sharing them. The details, of course, are unique to each place on this earth—but the connection is universal.

Every month, I publish stories exploring these rich details and universal themes. I draw on my own depths of experience as a field naturalist in the northwestern United States. In many of my stories, I also collaborate with biologists, artists, and more, celebrating the many ways people can connect with nature.

Sometimes I share poems here, too, but there’s no regular publication schedule for those. Sometimes I also write for magazines, including Montana Outdoors, Big Sky Journal, and Permaculture.

Unless I indicate otherwise, all of the photographs on Wild With Nature are my own.

Making more stories bilingual

With the inspiration and the generous support of Lynda Saul, in November 2023 I began translating several of my older stories, which I had produced only in English, to Spanish. The new Spanish-language versions also include updated podcasts with more voices of wildlife. Check out the most recent of these “new old” stories here, or find them in the archives:

By producing stories bilingually, I hope to not only make them available to a broader community, but also to provide a learning resource for anyone who is learning Spanish or English. I’ve recently added the following button to the top of each bilingual story, making navigation easy between the English and Spanish versions:

Supported by community

It might surprise you how much work it takes to produce these stories. Between forming collaborations, making observations and sound recordings in the field, writing, editing, maintaining this website, translating (which I do myself, without using AI), recording podcasts, editing podcasts, publishing, and publicizing, I spend dozens of hours each month on this project. I produce these stories with minimal resources and continue making them freely available to everyone because I believe in this work and I believe that everyone should be able to find a connection with nature. I also hope that, over time, the support for this project will grow and I’ll eventually be able to make a living wage for my time.

In the meanwhile, I rely entirely on collaborations and the support of community members to sustain this creative work. If these stories inspire you, there are many ways you can support me. Share them with your friends, family, and community. Leave a comment. Follow and rate Wild With Nature on your preferred podcast platform. Make a one-time donation or join the amazing community of people who support me with a recurring monthly donation, from $5 to $50 a month.

Thank you! Your support means the world to me!

– Shane Sater