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Sunday, May 5, 2013
A Child's Wild Kingdom
In the New York Times Sunday Review, Jon Modallem explores how our culture connects kids and wild creatures. He cites Edward O. Wilson's theory of "biophiia" — a theory that human beings are inherently tuned to other life-forms. As children grow up, the animal connection seems to recede. Are we hawkwatchers tuning into our inner child? Click here to read.
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Read the NYT article this morning - kept on wondering about my mental age and asking how many other online hawk-watchers were reading it and thinking the same thing.
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