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Reviews, Susie Criswell, Curt Schatz

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section reviewed several books:

• Journey to the Heart of Nature by Joseph Cornell
• Campsite to Kitchen: Tastes and Traditions From America's Great Outdoors by The Outdoor Writers Association of America
• Backwoods Ethics: Environmental Issues for Hikers and Campers {2nd Ed) by Laura and Guy Waterman

The Scripture Of Maps, The Names Of Trees, Stephen Trimble

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

The first six years of life work their subtle power on us throughout our lives. We remember few specifics. But our bedrock emotional security - our trust- comes from this time. We spend our first years striving to develop what psychologists call "a sense of competence." This drive for mastery- of grasping, crawling, walking, talking, and play-leads to astonishingly rapid and broad learning.

Recent research has surprised us with how emphatically our behavior and personalities are hard-wired by genetics. We start with our general emotional outlook on the world fixed by the magical code of our genes. The bent of …

Refuge, Amy Meadows

Intertext

This task was put before me; to tell of an experience or part of my life that has helped shape my identity. I wanted to make it so you could look past the black lines on this flat page and feel my world; how I touch it and taste it and live it and know it. So here's a trip to my world, taken from my mind, seen through my eyes.