Growing up in the Piney Woods of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Jeanne spent hours watching the frogs and crawdads in the meandering creek behind her family’s home.
Counting has always been one of Jeff’s strengths. When he was a kid, his parents commissioned him to pull weeds for pennies in the backyard. After a few hours, Jeff did the math.
Carolyn loved adventures with her big brother in the creek bed of the ravine behind their childhood home in Central Texas. She has fond memories of those warm summer days raiding the honeysuckle vine that covered the back gate...
It was under the towering pine trees at her family’s lake house in East Texas that Sarah first stood in awe of nature and came to appreciate being small…and yet a part of something greater.
For Scott, fishing trips with Granddad “J” at Caddo Lake in East Texas weren’t about fishing. “Looking back, catching fish was secondary,” he recalls.
As a child, Matt's experience of gardening came from his grandparent’s one-acre garden in East Texas. He dreaded being awakened on those early summer mornings...
During Kendra’s childhood in Detroit, Michigan, she enjoyed many years as a very active and involved Girl Scout, participating from early elementary school through high school. She has fond memories of learning and exploring nature...
Growing up in the Puerto Rico mountains, with her home surrounded by a lush coffee plantation on two sides and a zoo with roaring lions and elephants on the other, Nancy remembers treading dirt roads, past tall grasses...
Kerry grew up in a small, North Central Texas farming town surrounded by corn, cotton and sorghum fields. Hiding in tall rows of corn, he’d try to ambush meadowlarks. “Thank goodness I was unsuccessful,” he remembers.
After a childhood of summers spent exploring the countryside with her family in a tiny pop-up camper, Ellen felt herself pulled towards mountains as a young adult. After graduating, she moved from Illinois to Colorado where she lived at the base of the Rockies...
Deep in the quiet woods behind his home, 10-year-old Eric felt content and protected as he explored nature’s hidden mysteries, poking his finger into every conceivable crevice for investigations of what lived there.
Kelly grew up in the arroyos of Santa Fe, New Mexico, wandering the natural trails, creating her own, and always stopping along the way for good climbing trees. A child of the outdoors, she came to believe that every pair of knees needs one good scar...