Children in Nature
Mosman
I grew up in a beautiful place in Southern Queensland called Toowoomba. It’s on the Great Dividing Range, so the views are spectacular. My mother was a gardener. She created beauty around our house where we played. My sister and I loved to scramble through the bush. In the Spring our world was full of enchantment. It was a magic place.
I felt that same magic when I came to Mosman. Growing up here has given my own children the same special experience of growing up close to nature. They adored living here. I remember when my son was a teenager, he used to sit by himself and look out over a small cove, just contemplating. Adolescence is a soulful time and it’s important for young people to have places of peace and nature to experience solitude. A special place to sit and think. Now he has his own son.
Another of my sons became a bush regenerator. The love of nature is passed on from generation to generation.
Adolescence is a soulful time and it’s important for young people to have places of peace and nature to experience solitude. A special place to sit and think.
Kate Eccles
President Mosman Parks & Bushland Association
I grew up in a beautiful place in Southern Queensland called Toowoomba. It’s on the Great Dividing Range, so the views are spectacular. My mother was a gardener. She created beauty around our house where we played. My sister and I loved to scramble through the bush. In the Spring our world was full of enchantment. It was a magic place.
I felt that same magic when I came to Mosman. Growing up here has given my own children the same special experience of growing up close to nature. They adored living here. I remember when my son was a teenager, he used to sit by himself and look out over a small cove, just contemplating. Adolescence is a soulful time and it’s important for young people to have places of peace and nature to experience solitude. A special place to sit and think. Now he has his own son.
Another of my sons became a bush regenerator. The love of nature is passed on from generation to generation.
Adolescence is a soulful time and it’s important for young people to have places of peace and nature to experience solitude. A special place to sit and think.
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