. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Handbook of Nature-Sttidy THE CORRELATION OJ' NATURE-STUDY WITH GEOGRAPHY IFE depends upon its environment. Geographical conditions and limitations have shaped the mold into which plastic life has been poured and by which its form has been modified. It may be easy for the untrained mind to see how the des- erts and oceans affect life. Cattle may not roam in the former because there is nothing there for them to eat, nor may they occupy the latter be- cause they are not fitted for breat
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Handbook of Nature-Sttidy THE CORRELATION OJ' NATURE-STUDY WITH GEOGRAPHY IFE depends upon its environment. Geographical conditions and limitations have shaped the mold into which plastic life has been poured and by which its form has been modified. It may be easy for the untrained mind to see how the des- erts and oceans affect life. Cattle may not roam in the former because there is nothing there for them to eat, nor may they occupy the latter be- cause they are not fitted for breathing air in the water. And yet the camel can endure thirst and live on the scant food of the desert; and the whale is a mammal fitted to live in the sea. The question is, how are we to impress the child with the "have to " which lies behind all these geo- graphical facts. If animals live in the desert they have to subsist on scant and peculiar food which grows there; they have to get along with little water; they have to endure heat and sand storms; they have to have eyes that will not become blinded by the vivid reflection of the sun- light on the sand; they have to be of sand color so that they may escape the eyes of their enemies or creep upon their prey unperceived. All these have to's are not mere chance, but they have existed so long that the animal, by constantly coming in contact with them, has attained its present form and habits. There are just as many have to's in the stream or the pond back of the school-house, on the dry hillside behind it or in the woods beyond the creek as there are in desert or ocean; and when the child gets an inkling of this fact, he has made a great step into the realm of geography. When he realizes why water lilies can grow only in still water that is not too deep and which has a silt bottom, and why the cat-tails grow in swamps where there is not too much water, and why the muUen grows in the dry pasture, and why the hepatica thri
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