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Learning to love the natural world enough to protect it. Barn, 2, 5778. Retrieved September 18, 20008, from Children and Nature Network : http://www.childrenandnature.org/uploads/Chawla_LearningtoLove.pdf (2006)
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author = {Louise Chawla and Louise Chawla},
title = {Learning to love the natural world enough to protect it. Barn, 2, 5778. Retrieved September 18, 20008, from Children and Nature Network : http://www.childrenandnature.org/uploads/Chawla_LearningtoLove.pdf},
year = {2006}
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had a sunny office near mine, and in his office he had a sketch of a young man on horseback, surveying a meadow of spring flowers. Per Olav ex-plained that it was a drawing of Henrik Wergeland, and that according to legend, this Romantic poet’s affinity with nature was so strong that wild flowers sprang up as he passed by. I learned with time that Wergeland ex-pressed some of Per Olav’s deepest feelings, including his fierce love for Norway as a nation, which was inextricably connected to his love for the beauty of the land. These feelings were related to the reasons that brought me to NOSEB. I had already done extended interviews in the state of Kentucky in the United States, trying to understand what motivated people who had taken action to protect the land, air, waters or wilderness of their regions, often at great personal cost to themselves. I wanted to know what Norwegian environmentalists would say when they were presented with the same questions. First, I asked them to tell the story of the most significant ac-tions that they had taken to protect the environment. After they told these stories, I asked, “How would you explain the sources of your commitment to protect the environment? What personal experiences turned you in this direction and inspired you to pursue it?” Over the course of my first year in Norway, I interviewed 26 people from Trondheim to Oslo, and then compared their answers with those of
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