Rewild Yourself: Making Nature More Visible in Our Lives

“We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it.”

Thus Simon Barnes, Nature Lover Extraordinaire, begins his book Rewild Yourself. He proposes twenty-three simple ways to reawaken yourself to the magic of the natural world.

His proposals are magic. He suggests stopping by a buddleia tree, a tree that attracts scores of butterflies, and discovering the names of some of the butterflies that alight there. He offers the idea of listening to the birds and finding out what birds make the songs we hear.

He reveals lots of other ideas of discovering the magic that is right in front of our eyes and ears but that we have lost the ability to see and hear.

The book focuses on England and the English, but it's quite simple to adapt the ideas for our own specific parts of the world.