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.
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...
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.