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(This post supplements material in chapters 2 and 3 of Connect with Nature.) I have been working on a project that got me thinking about bushwalking leadership. I have been leading bushwalks for decades – about two a month during my most active years. Some of my bushwalking leadership was in the context of training […]

(This post updates material in Chapter 11 of Connect with Nature.) In 2013, choosing to call my blog, Our Green genes, was something of an act of faith. I was inspired to call it that by Edward O Wilson’s biophilia ‘hypothesis’ that humans are innately or genetically disposed to be interested in and attracted to nature. […]

(This post supplements materials in chapters 3 and 10 of Connect with Nature). According to one of my early bushwalking mentors, ‘Americans hike, New Zealanders tramp, Britishers ramble, but Aussies bushwalk’. I was reminded of this when I read Dr Evelyn Lewin’s recent Sun-Herald magazine article (January 30,2022), ‘Take a hike’. Evelyn, a general practitioner and […]

(Material in this post supplements Chapter 12 of Connect with Nature) Becoming nature connected has opened my eyes and heart to the importance of indigenous people for the future of humanity. I acknowledge this in the last chapter of my book. Connect with Nature, where I speak of the ‘Earth-centred wisdom’ that sets indigenous cultures […]