John (Jack) Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. Laws is a scientist, educator, and author, who helps people forge a deeper and more personal connection with nature by keeping illustrated nature journals and developing their understanding of science. Trained as a wildlife biologist and an associate of the California Academy of Sciences, he observes the world with rigorous attention. Attention, observation, curiosity, and creative thinking are not gifts, but skills that grow with training and deliberate practice.