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need for trained science teachers who can teach in the out-of-doors. 

 If we are to utilize the thousands of Nature Centers or School Natural 

 Areas that are needed to accomplish the vital educational task of 

 which we are speaking, we shall need tens of thousands of teachers 

 equipped to use them. We need teachers who are not only lab- 

 oratory biologists or geologists, but who are also ecologists and inter- 

 pretative naturalists. 



With the combined efforts of knowledgeable teachers and inter- 

 ested citizens in the Nature Centers, children in urban environments 

 will be able to obtain an understanding of the law and order what 

 we call ecology so that they can make decisions about conserva- 

 tion and natural beauty and so that there will be developed in these 

 human beings this feeling, this love for natural beauty, and the 

 world of nature. 



I have seen this happen. I have seen a child from the slums, 

 a teenager that one would write off as a lost individual of the slums, 

 a little teenaged girl, being brought into a camp, and suddenly 

 plunged overnight by bus, if you will into one of the most ex- 

 traordinarily beautiful situations. And there she stood looking over 

 a vast expanse of blue waters, into a blue sky, and surrounded by 

 trees, with wheeling birds all around her, and this insensitive teen- 

 ager so you would think looked up and said, "Oh, my God, I 

 never realized that there was this much beauty in all the world !" 



This is because it is there. It is just a question of getting it to 

 them. 



OSCAR STONOROV. I would like to make these remarks in answer 

 to Lady Jackson and Mr. Buchheister. 



1. I am building in the great city of Philadelphia, a city which 

 has become known for its planning activities and redevelopment, a 

 school today for 1,200 children on one acre. No comment. This is 

 not a singular case. I think it is still the rule of the game. 



2. I remember on my large farm on which I raised a number of 

 children, a Sunday luncheon in which two of our children brought 

 their teachers and wanted to show them the maternity barn. There 

 was a calf to be born that particular day. One of our children took 

 the teachers out and as a result of that experience, both teachers, aged 

 28, fainted. 



3. What Lady Jackson described is, of course, the heart of the 

 problem, that the enormously profitable suburban land today knocks 

 off the natural boundary or provides the natural boundary for the cul- 



