Let’s keep kids experiencing and loving outdoors is our motto! The Kid for the Wild Scholarship has offered these opportunities since 2011 and we want to continue this.
April 30 of this year is the deadline for scholarship applications and they can be submitted right HERE…..
https://walkinjim.com/kid-for-the-wild-scholarship/
Show the children every winged thing. The bees, dragonflies, queen ants, bluebirds, luna moths & swallowtails. Creatures that inspire them to defy gravity.-Nicolette Sowder
“In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.”― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.”― Richard Louv
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.-Thomas Berry
“Time in nature is not leisure time; it’s an essential investment in our chidlren’s health (and also, by the way, in our own).”
― Richard Louv
Lyrics to song “Kid for the Wild”
Walkin Jim Stoltz
Now, when I was a babe just about knee high
How I loved all them worms and the butterflies
And I felt the need just to crawl thru the weeds
Talkin’ to the critters, all the bugs and the bees
And Mom says to Dad, whats with this kid?
And Dad says, Mom, don’t flip your lid,
It’s just his style, he’s a kid…. for the wild.
Yes, as I grew well I hit the woods
Cause walkin’ out there made me feel so good
Just to be me , You know it felt so free,
I could wander here or there or go climb a tree,
And I watched the deer and I chased the rabbits
And the chipmunks too and I learned their habits,
Mom says to Dad, I’m afraid he’s weird
Dad says to Mom, Oh I think it’s clear
It’s just his style, he’s a kid…. for the wild.
I like things the way they are
Not inside cages or in plastic jars,
You know I like to see, things runnin’ free
And I have the idea they were meant to be,
There’s more to life than just T.V.
There’s the rivers and the mountains and the clouds and
me,
It’s just my style, I’m a kid….. for the wild.
I like critters like grizzly bears,
Spotted owls and desert hares,
And I can’t understand, the big money man,
Chase them from their homes and change the land,
They have a right to live for their own distinction,
Ain’t no call for their extinction.
Just my style, I’m a kid ….. for the wild.
Yeh, I like places where there ain’t no roads
You can listen to the crickets and the hoppin’ toads,
It’s all right there, even in the air,
The wilderness is something so precious and rare,
You know, to throw it away it just don’t seem fair,
Let’s all get together really start to care.
Just my style, I’m a kid ….. for the wild.
I guess I’ll always have this thirst
Clean water and air, you know the Earth comes first,
Let’s save the seas, and the mountains and trees,
Let’s keep it wild and keep it free,
And when your parents tell you go to bed
And they close the door, and they nod their heads,
They’ll say, It’s just that style, we got a kid…..
for the wild.
Yes, it’s just that style, we got a kid…. for the
wild.
Be a kid….for the wild! Be a kid….For The Wild!!
Leslie