{"id":11579,"date":"2018-09-03T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=11579"},"modified":"2018-08-30T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:00:08","slug":"take-5-nature-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-nature-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Nature Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at Mass Audubon, we’re all about growing, nurturing, and inspiring nature heroes at every age but we think kids are particularly inspiring<\/a>. Their unencumbered curiosity for everything they find, their joyful exuberance for exploring the outdoors, and\u2014perhaps most importantly\u2014their innate gift for imagining an ideal world unencumbered by cynicism or limitations make them uniquely qualified to be nature heroes, leading the charge and inspiring us all to make a lasting, positive impact on the natural world.<\/p>\n

To celebrate our smallest-but-mightiest nature heroes, here are five photos of kids doing what they do best: reveling in the wonder and beauty of nature. We have an entire category dedicated to People in Nature in our annual Picture This: Your Great Outdoors<\/a> photo contest. The deadline for this year’s contest is September 30, so don’t delay\u2014submit your beautiful nature photography today!<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Debra Bolduc<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a9 Lisa Roberts<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a9 Carolynne Bailey<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a9 Mark Lotterhand<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a9 Lorraine Jackson<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at Mass Audubon, we’re all about growing, nurturing, and inspiring nature heroes at every age but we think kids are particularly inspiring. Their unencumbered curiosity for everything they find, their joyful exuberance for exploring the outdoors, and\u2014perhaps most importantly\u2014their innate gift for imagining an ideal world unencumbered by cynicism or limitations make them uniquely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":11586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[275,61,276,277,83,84],"class_list":["post-11579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-take-5","tag-children","tag-kids","tag-nature-heroes","tag-people-in-nature","tag-photo-contest","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/08\/1421LisaRoberts4823-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-30L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9796,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/inspiring-generations-of-nature-heroes\/","url_meta":{"origin":11579,"position":0},"title":"Inspiring Generations of Nature Heroes","author":"Mass Audubon","date":"September 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"You may have noticed some\u00a0recent\u00a0changes on our website, within our blogs and social media feeds, and in publications across Massachusetts. 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