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lem a name - “Nature Deficit Disorder'’ - not as a medical diagnosis, but as a description of a serious social malady.
When I was growing up in Bethesda, Maryland, my friends and 1 probably had a number of disorders, but nature deficit was not one of them. For us, the wildest. place an earth wasn’t the Amazon rain forest or even Shenandoah National tark. We vaguely knew these places existed, but they were far away and abstract. No, our wilderness was much closer to home - a group of giant boulders lodged on the edge of heavily wooded Little Falls Creek, known simply as “Big Rock.” Here we escaped after school to find crayfish under stones, marvel at
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