It's time to remember something important we have forgotten.
Edith 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 sensorial moments "radioactive jewels across the years of our lives."
It's time to remember that natural connections awaken brilliant potentials.
During the Neolithic Age societies seeking protection erected walls around their cities. This walling off from nature initiated a creeping intergenerational severance from our natural habitat. Walled-in humanity shared an ever-increasing state of forgetting about life-sustaining connections. Hundreds of generations after the first walled-in societies, institutional walls, both literal and figurative, isolate our children.
The time has come to awaken from mass amnesia.
This severance of children from health-giving immersion in nature has contributed to a proliferation of psychological and physiological maladies, drugs and specialized remediations.
In their natural habitat children can thrive and the indwelling genius emerge.
