Catriona MacGregor

About Catriona MacGregor

Catriona (Celtic for Catherine) MacGregor is an award-winning author, environmental leader, scientist, attorney, journalist, mystic, and founder of Nature Quest®, an organization dedicated to helping people deepen their connection with nature, consciousness, and the living Earth.

For more than three decades, she has led conservation initiatives, habitat restoration projects, and international collaborations across North America, Asia and Latin America. She has worked with scientists, Indigenous elders, educators, and innovators to protect and restore our living earth.

Through Nature Quest®, Catriona guides nature quests, vision quests, spiritual retreats, consciousness exploration, and nature-based coaching in the United States and Scotland. Her work integrates ecology, ancient wisdom traditions, personal transformation, intuitive development, and direct experiences of the natural world.

She is the author of the Nautilus Gold Medal-winning book "Partnering with Nature: The Wild Path to ReConnecting the the Earth", recognized for its vision of a deeper partnership between humanity and the Earth. Her acclaimed books also include "Secrets of a Celtic Mystic" and her new book - Touched by the Stars: Beyond UFOs, Extraordinary Encounters and Humanity's Future in a Living Cosmos.

In Touched by the Stars, Catriona draws upon a lifetime of extraordinary experiences with extraterrestrial beings, conservation leadership, interviews with researchers and innovators, emerging science, and ancient wisdom traditions to explore consciousness, extraterrestrial intelligence, the nature of reality, human potential, spiritual transformation, and humanity's future.

Her work bridges science and spirituality, nature and consciousness, Earth wisdom and cosmic perspectives, offering readers a hopeful vision of humanity's evolution and our place within a vast interconnected universe.

Catriona lives in the forests of Northern California with her husband, Paul, where she continues to write, teach, guide retreats, and explore the mysteries of consciousness, nature, and the cosmos.