Making an effort to restore nature to its rightful place in children's lives, this anthology gathers personal essays recounting adventures with young people in the natural world. Rick Bass captures fireflies with his children and reflects on fatherhood; Michael Branch observes wryly that both gardening and parenting are "disciplines of sustainability"; Lauret Savoy considers how African American children can connect to the land after generations of estrangement; and Sandra Steingraber has "the big talk" with her children, not about sex but about global warming.