Children & Nature: Making Connections - Softcover

Richard Louv; Medicine Grizzlybear Lake; David Sobel; Scott Russell Sanders; Lowell Monke; Kelly McMasters; Stephanie Hanes; Richard Lewis; George K. Russell; Pattiann Rogers; James E. Higgins; Carolyn Jabs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980083117 ISBN 13: 9780980083118

Publisher: The Myrin Institute, 2014

Synopsis

This collection of 12 essays has been assembled out of a concern that many young people in America have little contact with the world of nature. The essays aspire to awaken in readers the wish to assist young people by guiding them to what lies outside their front door or in a local park or woodland, and that true nature experience will come to replace what is surely a powerful form of addiction, a dependency on text messages, e-mails and videos and a torrent of unreal, virtual images. A challenge stands squarely before us: How can we begin to address the malaise of indifference to nature so widespread among our young people?

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Review:

A generation that spends, on average, 7 hours 38 minutes each day on some sort of screen (hand-held, video, TV, etc.) will have no time for quiet immersion in a natural setting, no time to play in nature, no time to experience the tides or the vicissitudes of the weather or the comings and goings of wild animals or the resurgence of life in the spring. --George K. Russell

Children come to know a tree by peeling its bark, climbing its branches, sitting under its shade, jumping into its piled-up leaves. Just as important, these firsthand experiences are enveloped by feelings and associations-muscles being used, sun warming the skin, blossoms scenting the air. The computer cannot even approximate any of this. --Lowell Monke

Nature programs should invite children to make mud pies, climb trees, catch frogs, paint their faces with charcoal, get their hands dirty and their feet wet. ...Between the ages of six and twelve, learning about nature is less important than simply getting children out into nature. --David Sobel

About this edition

• Publisher: The Myrin Institute
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0980083117
• ISBN 13: 9780980083118
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: George K. Russell
• Illustrator: Cultura RM/Julia Kuskin