Think Like a Forest

Beautiful and thought-provoking Cal Flyn A delightful and important book. Every parent should read this Merlin Hanbury-TenisonHow do we raise children in a climate emergency?What should we teach them - and what kind of future are we preparing them for?Ben Rawlence began writing to his eldest daughter before she was born, trying to understand what it means to bring a child into a world facing ecological breakdown. Over the next twelve years, these letters written to his two daughters as they grow chart one father s attempt to live with the central contradiction of our age: raising children within a system that threatens all life, including our own.By turns moving and funny, and always bracingly honest, Think Like a Forest explores love, fear and responsibility in perilous times. Rawlence finds the answers might lie in learning to see the world again through the eyes of a child so that we may embrace interdependence and regain our place in nature. To think like a forest, he shows us, may be the key to how we parent, how we live, and even whether we have a future on our planet at all.'A gift, not just for the author s daughters, but for all of us who want to replace ecocide anxiety with the glimmerings of a better future Sophy Roberts A thoughtful, tender way to make a map of new and frightening territory Jay Griffiths