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13. Bringing Nature Home

167   “They were on an island in a sea of trees” Kathryn Kramer, “Writers on Writing,” New York Times, December 30, 2002.

168   the word wasn’t in anybody’s vocabulary until the nineteenth century Patricia Meyer Spacks, Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).

172   “Your job isn’t to hit them with another Fine Educational Opportunity” Deborah Churchman, “How to Turn Kids Green; Reinstilling the Love for Nature Among Children,” American Forests 98, no. 9–10 (September 1992): 28.

173   “sanctuary, playground, and sulking walk” Robert Michael Pyle, The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993), xv, xvi.

173   “The kid who yawns when you say ‘Let’s go outside’” Churchman, “How to Turn Kids Green,” 28.

175   the sunflower house Sharon Lovejoy, Sunflower Houses: Inspiration from the Garden—A Book for Children and Their Grown-Ups (New York: Workman, 2001). For more information, see http://www.rain.org/~philfear/sunflowerhouse.html.

176   “Our son was overstressed” Richard Louv, Childhood’s Future (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990), 40–41.

14. Scared Smart

179   We know that parks Paul M. Sherer, “The Benefits of Parks: Why America Needs More City Parks and Open Space” (San Francisco: Trust for Public Land, 2003), http://tpl.org/content_documents/parks_for_people_Jul2005.pdf.

185   “trying to teach personal safety to children” Quoted in Richard Louv, Childhood’s Future (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990), 39.

15. Telling Turtle Tales

196   Americans participating in traditional forms of recreational wildlife watching decreased From a paper by Responsive Management, a public opinion and attitude survey research firm specializing in natural resource and outdoor recreation issues, http://www.responsivemanagement.com.

197   For a child who is primarily an audile learner Tina Kelley, “A Sight for Sensitive Ears: A New Generation of Audio Technology Is Opening Up the Wonders of Birding to the Visually Impaired—and the Sighted, Too,” Audubon 104 (January/February 2002): 76–81.

197   “Don’t rush to the library for a book” Linda Batt, “All Hail Our Fair Feathered Friends: A Backyard Birdfeeder Makes Science Fun!” Mothering, January/February 2000, 58.

198   For more than 150 years, New England anglers have been keeping fishing logs Richard Louv, Fly-Fishing for Sharks (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 220.

198   Outdoor journaling is something a family can do together Linda Chorice, “Nature Journaling—the Art of Seeing Nature,” Missouri Conservationist, July 1997.

200   “We’re part of nature” Quoted in Richard Louv, Fly-Fishing for Sharks (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 466.

16. Natural School Reform

203   experiential education teaches through the senses John A. Hattie, Herbert W. Marsh, James T. Neill, and Garry E. Richards. “Adventure Education and Outward Bound: Out-of-Class Experiences That Make a Lasting Difference,” Review of Educational Research (1997): 43–87.

204   “Finland’s recipe is both complex and unabashedly basic” Lezette Alvarez, “Suutarila Journal: Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of Literate Children,” New York Times, April 9, 2004.

206   For more effective education reform Gerald A. Lieberman and Linda L. Hoody, “Closing the Achievement Gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning” (San Diego: State Education and Environment Roundtable [SEER], 1998). “California Student Assessment Project, Phase One: The Effects of Environment-Based Education on Student Achievement” (SEER, 2000). “California Student Assessment Project, Phase Two” (SEER, 2005). Available online at http://www.seer.org/.

207   David Sobel . . . describes place-based education David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities (Great Barrington, MA: The Orion Society and the Myrin Institute, 2004).

208   More recently “Effects of Outdoor Education Programs for Children in California” (Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 2005). Available online at http://wwwhttp://www.sierraclub.org/youth/

california/outdoorschool_finalreport.pdf.

210   “I used to take student groups on trips to the California deserts” Will Nixon, “Letting Nature Shape Childhood,” Amicus Journal, National Resources Defense Council, distributed by The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, December 24, 1997.

212   At Torrey Pines Elementary Richard Louv, The Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us (Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1996), 148.

214   seventh-graders attended four hundred trout fingerlings Richard Louv, Fly-Fishing for Sharks (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 393.

218   Mary Rivkin, a professor of early childhood education Mary Rivkin, “The Schoolyard Habitat Movement: What It Is and Why Children Need It,” Early Childhood Education Journal 25, no. 1 (1997).

219   Numerous studies Janet E. Dyment, “Gaining Ground: The Power and Potential of School Ground Greening in the Torono District School Board” (Toronto: Evergreen, 2005). Available online at http://www.evergreen.ca/en/lg/gaining_ground.pdf.

220   Another benefit of the green school grounds Anne C. Bell and Janet E. Dyment, “Grounds for Action: Promoting Physical Activity through School Ground Greening in Canada” (Toronto: Evergreen, 2006). Available online at http://www.evergreen.ca/en/lg/pdf/PHACreport.pdf.

221   What if farms and ranches Linda Jolly, Erling Krogh, Tone Nergaard, Kristina Parow, Berit Verstad, and Nord Trondelag, “The Farm as a Pedagogical Resource.” A paper submitted for the Sixth European Symposium on Farming and Rural Systems Research and Extension, Vila Real, Portugal, April 3–8, 2004. Available online at http://levendelaering.umb.no/pdf_documents/

The_Farm_as_a_Pedagogical_Resource__Portugal.pdf.

223   The dominant form of education today “alienates us from life” David Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1994).

223   “ecological design intelligence” David Orr, “What Is Education For? Six Myths about the Foundations of Modern Education, and Six New Principles to Replace Them,” Context: A Quarterly of Human Sustainable Culture, Context Institute (winter 1991): 52.

225   “Without a sound formation on natural history” Paul K. Dayton and Enric Sala, “Natural History: The Sense of Wonder, Creativity, and Progress in Ecology,” Scientia Marina (2001): 196–206.

17. Camp Revival

229   “Some of the most exciting findings” Andrea Faber Taylor and Frances E. Kuo. From a paper prior to publication, used with permission from the authors.

229   participants in adventure-therapy programs made gains in self-esteem John A. Hattie, Herbert W. Marsh, James T. Neill, and Garry E. Richards, “Adventure Education and Outward Bound: Out-of-Class Experiences That Make a Lasting Difference,” Review of Educational Research (1997): 43–87.

230   This is also true of carefully managed wilderness adventure programs Stephen R. Kellert and Victoria Derr, “A National Study of Outdoor Wilderness Experience” (New Haven: Yale University, 1998). Available online at http://nols.edu/resources/research/pdfs/kellert.complete.text.pdf. Also see: John A. Hattie, Herbert W. Marsh, James T. Neill, and Garry E. Richards, “Adventure Education and Outward Bound: Out-of-Class Experiences That Make a Lasting Difference,” Review of Educational Research 67, no. 1 (1997): 43–87.

230   the National Survey of Recreation and the Environment Leo McAvoy, “Outdoors for Everyone: Opportunities That Include People with Disabilities,” Parks and Recreation, National Recreation and Park Association 36,