Natural habitats are ecosystems of reciprocal connections between living participants.
A meadow is a natural habitat for squirrels, deer and foxes;
a savannah is a natural habitat for lions, elephants and zebras; a rainforest
is a natural habitat for monkeys, jaguars and peccaries; and nature is a natural
habitat for children.
It’s time to remember something important we have forgotten.
Edit Cobb author of Ecology of Imagination in Childhood
collected 300 volumes of biographical recollections of childhood by creative
thinkers. Her conclusion? The inventiveness and imagination of nearly all of
the people she studied were rooted in early experiences in nature. In other
words, “memories of awakening to the existence of some potential” are scattered
throughout the literature of scientific and aesthetic invention.
Louise Chawla called these ecstatic sensory moments
“radioactive jewels …across the years of our lives.”
It’s time to remember that natural connections awaken
brilliant potentials.
