Listen closely to the birds in the forest canopy, taste the edible roots and feel the wind in your hair. This is part of a primary satisfaction – the moments we experience first-hand, inaccessible by television, recollections in a magazine or Facebook... |
| Kids want adventure. Parents think it's a good thing. So why doesn't it happen more? |
Half of kids have never camped out?
According to this poll of 1500 parents and 1103 kids in the UK, over half of children have never camped out, not even in their back...
My new report Sowing the Seeds: Reconnecting children with nature was launched at City Hall yesterday morning. The report, written for the London Sustainable Development Commission (the body that advises the Mayor of London on sustainability) sets out a new vision for children’s relationship with nature, and maps out an action...
Ask almost anyone over 35, in any part of the country, and they will invariably remember spending their childhoods in the same place: outside.
Every day. All day. From morning until dusk, returning home only "when the streetlights came on," recalls Ashley Donahue, 38, from Roanoke, Va.
Yet few kids today are able to experience nature that way.
In only a generation,...
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