Find Your Nature

Connect with nature wherever you are through 40 universal prompts and related actions you can take whether you have a few minutes or a whole weekend.

Walking through trees lowers our blood pressure and elevates our mood. Digging in garden soil puts us in touch with microbes that benefit our gut microbiome. Watching and listening to birds floods us with a feeling of well-being. Talking for two minutes with a neighbor gives us a powerful sense of happiness and belonging. So why, then, don’t we make time for these activities? Amid a worldwide loneliness epidemic in which many people suffer from nature-deficit disorder, naturalist and environmental educator Melissa Hart demonstrates how to connect with your space’s flora and fauna, your air, soil, and water…even your human neighbors. With accessible, simple assignments and hundreds of resources, this beautifully illustrated book will inspire you to go outside and find your nature.

• “Treat yourself to this delightful guide! You’ll be better for it—and so will the place you call home.” 
  Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts
• “Find Your Nature is a practical guide for existing in the world today. But it’s also so much more: field guide, how-to manual, idea generator, and impetus for simple actions leading to simple pleasures that change lives, communities, and regions—most notably our own.”  
  Simmons Buntin, author of Satellite
• “What a delight to spend time in Melissa Hart's wonderful new book, Find Your Nature. The sharp, tight, insightful essays are maps for the discovery of the residents—plant, animal, and human—in your neighborhood.” 
  David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains and Return of the Osprey