Nature Book Reader June 2020 - Flipbook - Page 35
meaning. The humane logic
at play here is that we do
well to instil in our children
an enduring appreciation of
our secret interrelationship
with the living Earth, “to keep
alive” their “inborn sense of
wonder”. It is dedicated to her
three-year-old grandnephew
Roger, who inspired it and is
present throughout. This was
the tender book she left to the
child and the final book she
offered to our world.
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