I have a plan to begin, in a formal way, to meet with
children, youth, adults, and seniors in order to learn
with them the beauty and ways of nature. This I have
done on my own, or with a select group of acquaintances,
for much of my life.
Now, I wish to do it as part of some organization like
our local nature center.
I am pushed along the path by such people as Henry
David Thoreau, especially after reading the following
passage taken from his Journal entry of November 2, 1860:
I think it would be worth the while
to introduce a school of children to
such a grove, that they may get an
idea of the primitive oaks before
they are all gone. Instead of hiring
botanists to lecture to them when
it is too late. Why, you do not now
often meet with a respectable
oak stump even, for they too
have decayed.
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