Nicholas Kristof: Let’s Get Kids Awed by Nature

New York Times – August 01, 2009
By Nicholas Kristof

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While backpacking here with my 11-year-old daughter, I kept thinking of something tragic: so few kids these days know what happens when you lick a big yellow banana slug. My daughter and I were recuperating in a (banana slug-infested) wilderness from a surfeit of civilization. On our second day on the Pacific Crest Trail, we were exhausted after nearly 20 miles of hiking, our feet ached, and ravenous mosquitoes were persecuting us. Dusk was falling, but no formal campsite was within miles. So we set out a groundsheet and our sleeping bags on the soft grass of a ridge, so…

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