Children in Nature

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.