Nature Spirits
What do Nature Spirits say? From the book of channeled messages from Devas, "To Honor the Earth" by Dorothy Maclean, 1991:
Nothing is worth doing unless it is done with joy; in any action, motives other than love and joy spoil the results. Could you imagine a flower growing as a duty and then sweetening the hearts of its beholders?
~Devas of the Fruit Trees
What kind of challenge would it be to live like that? For every action to be motivated by love and joy? How is that even hard? Isn't it crazy that that's not the norm? Love and joy are free, they cost nothing, they depend on nothing, they are contingent on nothing.
Animism
There's really not much more to say. It's not as if nature spirits are sudden.
Animism (from Latin: anima meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words—as being animated, having agency and free will.
They are known as Kami in Shinto:
Kami (Japanese: 神) are the deities, divinities, spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the traditional Shinto religion of Japan. Kami can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, beings and the qualities that these beings express, and/or the spirits of venerated dead people.
The word "Deva" as used by the Findhorn folk is a euphemism for angel. In an interview recorded in 1992 Dorothy Maclean says,
I'd heard of the Sanskrit word for angel which is "deva" so I used that because it was free [of the associations of the word "angel" in the contemporary UK culture]
~A Conversation with the Founders of the Findhorn Community: Eileen, Peter & Dorothy - Our History
There's no trick to communicating with Nature Spirits, but you have to be in a peaceful, kind, and loving state, which for most humans is already a big challenge.