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    Robert Michael Pyle

    Nature and Childhood Robert Michael Pyle The Thunder Tree (Houghton Mifflin) and Scott Russell Sanders Writing from the Center (Indiana University Press) The writers discuss how adult mentors affect a child's attitude toward the natural world and how writing penetrates one's inner wilderness--the wilderness of imagination.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Sep 19, 1996 • 30m Listen

    Nature and Childhood Robert Michael Pyle The Thunder Tree (Houghton Mifflin) and Scott Russell Sanders Writing from the Center (Indiana University Press) The writers discuss how adult mentors affect a child's attitude toward the natural world and how writing penetrates one's inner wilderness--the wilderness of imagination.

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