Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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Abstract
Although we are part of nature, most of us learn to spend on average over 95 percent of our time and 99 percent of our thinking separated from and out of tune with nature's beauty, balance, healing, sustainability and restorative powers. According to Cohen, this is a profound loss that traumatizes us into denial. We deny that we are rewarded by our daily indoor lives for fearing and exploiting, rather than embracing and learning from nature. We deny that we are psychologically addicted to nature- disconnected lives that produce personal, social and environmental dysfunction.
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(2005)
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Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 15:
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1, Article 3.
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