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Discovery in the 'Art Park'

  Discovery in the ‘Art Park’ 

            The Art Park is a place of discovery where one is free to experience the pleasure of walking on the earth and wood chips of the trails, hearing the wind in the branches or watching a butterfly settle on a flower.

            In a Syracuse New Times article by Sam Graceffo, M.D. entitled “Nature Calls” he sites Richard Louv’s “Last Child in the Woods” as an inspiration. “Louv argues that our DNA dictates needs for unstructured exposures to the sights, sounds, smells and the feel of the natural world.” This is necessary for the breath and creative growth of children and young people—and to us all. Overly supervised play, too much TV and computer can dull creative imagination and deny the pleasures of discovering nature. Graceffo concludes his article with this quote:

 

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”--- Aristotle (300 BC).

 

       

 

 

 

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