The Nature Seed: How to Raise Adventurous and Nurturing Kids

Description

While children spend less time outdoors than ever, adults also live in a time of chronic disconnection from nature. How, then, do we rewild childhood? The Nature Seed is a practical and philosophical guide to sharing the wonders of the natural world with children. It's a manual for finding awe in the cracks of the pavement and magic on a walk around the block. It offers a radical vision that calls for a new kinship with nature in both town and countryside with creative ideas and activities to nurture your child's love for the wild drawn from extensive experience. For parents and adults with children in their lives, the Nature Seed is an inspiring cry for wild play, peace and adventure for all.

Lucy Jones is the author of Losing Eden and Foxes Unearthed. Especially interested in the science of our attachment to nature, she is has spent as much time as possible with her children outside over the past few years. Kenneth Greenway is the Cemetery Park Manager of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. He has worked full-time in nature conversation since 2000 and has two decades of experience of working with children in natural spaces, including running forest schools.

'Praise for Losing Eden by Lucy Jones: Urgent, accessible, moving ... A beautifully written, research-heavy study about how nature offers us wellbeing' - Observer 'The benefits of experiencing nature may be far greater than is commonly appreciated ... A fascinating exploration of the new science of our connection to the natural world ... written in such lush, vivid prose that reading it, one can feel transported and restored.' - New Statesman 'Wonderful...This is an important book and one I'll refer back to.' - Telegraph Book of the Year 'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched, Losing Eden is an elegy to the healing power of nature, something we need more than ever in our anxiety-ridden world of ecological loss. Woven together with her own personal story of recovery, Lucy Jones lays out the overwhelming scientific evidence for nature as nurturer for body and soul with the clarity and candour that will move hearts and minds - a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world' - Isabella Tree, author of 'Praise for Foxes Unearthed by Lucy Jones: Jones's history of our complex relationship with the fox is revealing... to discover there was an 18th-century sport of 'fox tossing' almost makes this worth the purchase alone' - John Lewis-Stempel