Urbanization makes preserves the sole source of plant-taste-and-smell knowledge for millions

Evidence

What does it smell like?” It is an educational experience that goes beyond the mere odor of the object itself; it takes the child or the adult into fields of like or associated odors. An odor memory is cultivated or renewed. Children who live in rural places come to know verb early by both taste and smell a large number of plant species—even the qualities of various clays—but as the country becomes more and more urbanized, there are more and more millions who can get such acquaintance and knowledge only from public preserves where interpretation is done. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 350

Categorization

• XREF: Urbanization shrinking direct sensory plant knowledge pairs with the campus-area nature pedagogy of ECOL 2980 and with urban-lore work on contact-with-nature decline. — connects to: Tactile, smell, and taste engagement is a durable human urge that interpretation underuses — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 348; The plant species one notices reveals that person’s ecological education — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 165

Broader Connections

• The plant species one notices reveals that person’s ecological education #expands (0.82) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 165