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Date Posted: 06:34:30 01/21/10 Thu
Author: Jennifer from bucks county pa
Subject: Re: relationship with nature
In reply to: darren lillywhite 's message, "Re: relationship with nature" on 03:40:59 01/15/10 Fri

I again am in agreement with you. I grew up in a strong traditional family on a farm. The lessons and life experience I gained are the cornerstone of who I have become. Unforetunately strong traditional families are a dying breed. Farms and land are disappearing. This generation is more comfortable with being locked away in their homes. When I was a child we only had three tv channels so we spent most of our time outside running through the corn fields, walking the old dirt road, and playing in the creek where we caught turtles and frogs. We also had wild mulberry and boysenberry bushes where we collected the fruit for our parents to make jelly. These experiences and depth to life are not prevalent today. We are crumbling as a society. You can not educate our youth enough on the importance of outdoor play. Each year in my area we hold a get up, turn off(the tv), and get out and play day. We do a boat and canoe presentation, the cub scouts are there and there are cultural games and activities. I do a native presentation with a friend of mine and there is dancing and rock climbing. It's a start but more needs to be done. If others would just educate our children and pull them away from the tv and video games, provide them with the oppurtunities to explore our natural world they could learn so much and fulfill every need. Nature provides in so many ways.
>>>hello everyone, my name is darren and i live in
>>>sheffield england. I first became interested in
>>>indiginous cultures through my love of nature, that
>is
>>>what we point to as animals plants mountains weather
>>>etc. since childhood i have taken many turns in life,
>>>one moment this, next moment that, but the one
>>>constant within all this has been my relationship
>with
>>>the natural world. you see we are taught about the
>>>natural world at school as something over there, but
>>>my experience teaches me that i am part of the
>natural
>>>world along with everyone and everything else in the
>>>universe. this is not a flight of fancy or some
>escape
>>>from the real, this is the real. leaving the usual
>>>unsatisfactory books behind i began to read books by
>>>native peoples of australasia, north and south
>america
>>>and
>>>africa and realised they were speaking of nature in a
>>>totally different way to what i had been taught for
>so
>>>many years. i can't help but feel if we had this kind
>>>of teaching in our schools, colleges and homes, the
>>>planet would not be in the state it is.
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>>Hello. I agree with you. This generation is consumed
>>with video games and television cutting them off from
>>whats real, the earth and all its creation. It's not
>>normal or healthy. We need the outdoors to remind us
>>of who we are and where we come from.
>
>the problem seems to be that we don't know how to
>live,society with its war, greed, self centred
>behaviour and everyone seperated into different groups
>breeds conflict and most of us cannot copewith it all.
>so we escape into drugs, drink, tv, pornography and so
>on.the problem with this is, whilst we are induldged
>in these things we are not working to solve the
>problems that we hide from, and they get worse, so we
>run and hide again.
>the vicious circle begins.

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