This story involves you from Ian Davies, the grandson of Mabel and Reginald Whittemore, the inspiring founders of our group. At present, Ian is a Guardian of Nature month-to-month donor and right here he shares some reflections on how his household formed his love for nature and his dedication to motion. I hope you see a few of your personal values mirrored right here!
Nature has all the time been a part of our household story. My appreciation for nature got here, properly, naturally! Our household cottage in Muskoka has been a part of us for practically 100 years — a number of the unique cabin is a part of the cottage in the present day. You may see the sunshine coming in between the cabin boards going through the lake, and within the winter-time snow comes into the residing and eating room. It’s a magical place that rooted my love for nature.
My Dad was an entomologist (his specialty was black flies) and my mum labored as his lab assistant earlier than they acquired married and began a household. We have been on the cottage each summer season as children and teenagers. I’ve vivid reminiscences of going for walks in nature and studying about crops, birds, and, in fact, bugs. My Dad taught my brother and me find out how to stun flies to get them into specimen bottles. Our pals have been very impressed we knew find out how to stun flies!
What would my grandparents take into consideration the state of nature in the present day? Properly, the state of nature in the present day is horrifying and troubling. Lack of habitat, warming oceans, wildfires, flooding — there’s heaps to be involved about. It’s horrible what’s occurring — I feel my grandparents would see it like a runaway prepare. However there may be hope that we will halt and reverse this. And I do know they’d discover hope.
Yow will discover hope in schooling. My mom and grandmother, Mabel Frances cherished instructing. They each cherished inspiring children, and folks of all ages, to be taught extra concerning the pure world, and perceive that all the things in nature is interconnected.
Mabel Frances Whittemore
Training is paramount — we will’t create change until we’ve sufficient individuals who care and who demand motion to make things better which are unsuitable. And giving to Nature Canada provides me hope. I’m a Guardian of Nature month-to-month donor and I’m proud to see this group push the envelope, deliver individuals collectively, and lift our voices for nature. Each month, I do know that my present is at work saving nature, and it’s being mixed with the items of different caring and passionate Canadians. I hope everybody studying this may think about what they will do to assist nature — and giving in the present day is a approach to discover hope!
