Subject: Re: generalizations
From: Harriett Wright <harriett@ix.netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:10:12 -0400
Message-ID: <MOD$971007.6257@rec.gardens.ecosystems>
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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