In our January gathering we had an open storytelling time. We first spent a short time outside in the trees and garden being inspired by the natural surroundings, then came back in and read and told the nature based stories and folk lore that we had each brought with us. 

One of the stories I told was taken from Margaret Silf's collection of wisdom stories about a stream which was happy and glorious running down the mountains, until it reached the desert, where it couldn't get across as a stream. The desert suggested that it gave up its self identity to the power of the wind, allow the wind to lift it into the clouds, get carried across and dropped again on the other side as a new formed stream. This idea of giving up its self identity didn't sit well with the stream, but it decided that that was the only way it was going to progress in its life, so it did it, and became a different glorious stream the other side of the desert. 

There is so much in so many stories that we can learn and share about the natural world and how we as people can learn to be better people from it. 
Tell the stories, tell your story, and inspire and be inspired!