Wild With Nature

Welcome to Wild With Nature, a bilingual nature podcast that submerges you in the stories and sounds of nature!

Here’s the most recent episode:

This isn’t your typical podcast: it’s more like an audiobook. 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 weaving my audio recordings of birdsong, insects, and other natural sounds into each episode for an immersive, place-based experience. Give it a listen!

Haz clic aquí para seguir en español.

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

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.

Wild With Nature: immersive, bilingual stories of nature

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

In this age of AI and cheap, untrustworthy information, everything I produce on Wild With Nature is my own work, or the contributions of my guests and collaborators. From field observations and recordings to background research, writing, podcast recording, translating to Spanish, and audio mixing, this is a labor of love, and I do all of it by hand. I don’t use AI. Unless I indicate otherwise, all of the photographs I share here are my own. I’m able to keep sharing these stories thanks to the support of my Patreon community. These awesome folks also get special perks, like personal updates and early access to episodes. Thanks, friends!

Making more stories bilingual

With the inspiration and 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 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. Each bilingual story has a button at the top that links to the corresponding version in the other language:

Note: I used to have a form here where you could sign up for email updates via Mailchimp. Finally those monthly emails got to be too much work, so now I’m just doing monthly updates via Patreon. If you’re looking for updates any time a new podcast comes out, join me there! (There’s a free option, too.)