Nature
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A Special Place... The Blue Ridge Escarpment, that rugged, precipitous blue wall with rock-strewn slopes and cascading waterfalls, comprises some 150,000 acres of the northwestern part of South Carolina. The Mountain Bridge Wilderness now protects almost one-third of the escarpment in South Carolina and forms a “bridge” between and includes two vast watersheds owned by the city of Greenville.
“You cannot love what you do not understand.” In Forrest Carter’s novel The Education of Little Tree, a small boy experiences the secrets of nature through his Cherokee grandparents. He learns that everything in nature has a purpose and exists in a delicate balance which must be respected and preserved. If we are to conserve our precious heritage, we, too, must learn to understand. “For in the end, we will only conserve what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum, Sengalese Conservationist A very special curriculum
that parallels Little Tree’s education in Forrest Carter’s award winning novel. Let your students experience and learn from nature and see this part of our state through the eyes of Native Americans and the early settlers. From their own observations and explorations, students will have the opportunity to:
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