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Re: generalizations




Allyn Weaks wrote:
> 
> I just finished reading _The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild
> Places_ by Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble, and in one of his essays,
> Nabhan points out that even among children with easy access to wild places,
> the children estimate that most of their knowledge of the wild comes from
> TV (50%), with a lesser amount from school (30%), and almost nothing from
> spending time outside with peers or parents (10%).  They know more about
> the giant panda than they know about the house wren, or lizard, or ground
> beetle in their own territory.  

Too true.  What's a praying mantis or an ant lion compared with lions
eating zebras?  

Harriett


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