The Nurture of Nature Quotes

Rate this book
Clear rating
The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 (Nature | History | Society) The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 by Sharon Wall
12 ratings, 3.67 average rating, 1 review
The Nurture of Nature Quotes Showing 1-1 of 1
“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and "progress" to define its parameters as on that intangible but much lauded entity called nature. In short, the summer camp should best be read not as a simple rejection of modern life, but, rather, as one of the complex negotiations of modernity taking place in mid-twentieth century Canada.”
Sharon Wall, The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55