Author

Steven Simpson

What do fishing with an otter, sitting atop a mountain at dawn with eighty Taiwanese backpackers, and driving home from Aldo Leopold’s Shack have to say about teaching our children to care about nature? Answering this question is the overarching purpose of my upcoming book, Essays to My Daughter on Our Relationship with the Natural World. 

Nearly four years ago I started this website as a way to promote new books I had coming out. Finally I have something to announce. Fall 2022 Purdue University Press will release my latest and my most personal book. Back when my daughter Clare was excitedly preparing for her freshmen year in college, I’d planned to send her a series of letters about the importance of spending time outdoors. She was about to leave home, most likely forever, and I wasn’t going to be there to take her hiking and canoeing. The letters never got sent, but instead morphed into a series of essays about teaching children about their connection to nature. Now, with Clare recently graduating from college, those essays are about to appear in book form. Please periodically check this site, as I will regularly update my homepage with progress reports on the book. 

The Leader Who is Hardly Known

The Art of Self-less Teaching From the Chinese Tradition

The Processing Pinnacle

An Educator’s Guide to Better Processing

The Chiji Guidebook

A Collection of Experiential Activities and Ideas for Using Chiji Cards