# Nature’s Child

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- Book: [Nature’s Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-lister-kaye/natures-child) ([Nature’s Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-lister-kaye/natures-child.md))
- Authors: [John Lister-Kaye](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-lister-kaye)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0552-019-5
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

As I write Hermione's twelfth year is drawing to a close. The years of innocence are waning. But we have had the good fortune to live through a period when a child's mind is wide open and as absorbent as a sponge. Blessed years of exploration and discovery, fat and full of the natural world, which surrounds her here ... the mountains and forests and ospreys, eagles, otters and pine martens of a beautiful land.' NATURE'S CHILD is John Lister-Kaye's account of bringing up his daughter to appreciate the nature around her so beloved to himself. It is also a moving meditation on that world, and on their relationship, as he shows her how caterpillars metamorphose into moths; how beavers build dams in Norway; how half a million sea birds migrate to Shetland once a year to breed; how white rhinos behave in the wilds of Swaziland; how baby polar bears are raised on an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. As John puts it: 'Life is a collection of fragments of time charged with deeply personal sensation and meaning ... we had watched polar bears for a few minutes, but the recollection of those images are locked in for life. What is love if not time given in joy and delight?