All right peoples.

Here's a vid. it looked prety cool. they squee on Ingwe's life a little bit, and say that we are 'too separated' from nature.

but, anyway, six week course on wilderness skills so you can go back to your community and teach the kiddies and the adulties about the outdoors.

"To some extent, the movement is fueled by organizational or economic self-interest. But something deeper is going on here. With its nearly universal appeal, this issue seems to hint at a more atavistic motivation. It may have something to do with what Harvard professor E. O. Wilson calls the biophilia hypothesis, which is that human beings are innately attracted to nature: biologically, we are all still hunters and gatherers, and there is something in us, which we do not fully understand, that needs an occasional immersion in nature. We do know that when people talk about the disconnect between children and nature—if they are old enough to remember a time when outdoor play was the norm—they almost always tell stories about their own childhoods: this tree house or fort, that special woods or ditch or creek or meadow. They recall those “places of initiation,” in the words of naturalist Bob Pyle, where they may have first sensed with awe and wonder the largeness of the world seen and unseen. When people share these stories, their cultural, political, and religious walls come tumbling down."

How children lost the right to roam in four generationsBy DAVID DERBYSHIRE - More by this author » Last updated at 01:03am on 15th June 2007

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Thanks, bbbleaver for the post

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Submitted by bbbleaver on Wed, 2007-07-04 12:26. Animism | Evolution | Human ecology | Seattle

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