Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

The world is burning, and there is no time to put down the water buckets. For just an hour, put down the water buckets anyway. Take your cue from the bluebirds, who have no faith in the future but who build the future nevertheless, leaf by leaf and straw by straw, shaping them into the roundness of the world.

Turn your face up to the sky. Listen. Th

Pister collected all the Owens pupfish left at Fish Slough, with the intention of moving them to a nearby spring. They fit into two buckets. “I distinctly remember being scared to death,” he would later write. “I had walked perhaps fifty yards when I realized that I literally held within my hands the existence of an entire vertebrate species.” Pist

Later, as we were doing the dishes, Gopal explained: “Ila sat through one of our Justice and Ecology retreats. She was in the session on biological and cultural diversity, which is framed around the web of life, which, obviously, involves a lot of dying, too. After it’s over, she’s like, ‘It’s not really a web. It’s more of a tangle.’ And everybody

The impact of nature, for one, is something almost completely out of our control. A degree of interdependence is always inevitable and in certain contexts, desirable. However, each of us at the very least can enhance our knowledge of the fundamental aspects of our lives;