No one doubts that going out into nature gives pleasure and well-being, and we don't need a book to tell us that. However, this book goes further. Nature that takes care of us offers a broad overview of the elements, living beings and natural settings that contribute to our health, which are many more than we usually think. With this work, Katia Hueso, biologist, co-founder of the first open-air school in Spain and a leading expert and disseminator on education and the environment, nature conservation and sustainable development, invites us to explore the benefits that nature gives us and reveals where to find them. Also, with a friendly, simple, direct and empathetic tone, she offers tools to distinguish the wheat from the chaff, so that nature can take care of us in an effective, genuine and safe way.

Katia Hueso was born on a hot July 14 in Madrid and, perhaps for that reason, she always seeks refuge in nature. She studied Biology in Leiden (Netherlands), wrote her doctoral thesis on sustainable development and, after going round in circles, returned to her homeland to settle in a quiet village in the Guadarrama mountain range located between the provinces of Madrid and Segovia. Today she is the mother of three daughters and works as a consultant and university teacher on the environment, protected natural spaces and sustainability. After motherhood, in 2011 she founded, with two colleagues, the Saltamontes Nature Play Group, the first outdoor children's school in Spain. She is also the author of Somos naturaleza (2017), Jugar al aire libre (2019) and Educar en la naturaleza (2021), all published by Plataforma Editorial.