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Outdoor Living Reading and Activities



After having read what John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Robeson Taylor, Wharton James Robinson Jeffers and Mark Twain have to say about outdoor living in the 1800s and early 1900s in California, please try one or more of the following activities :

Find a tree to sit under and listen to the sound it makes in the wind. Write a short poem about this tree. Give the poem to your teacher to review with you & send to us.

In the evening at home, step out from inside the house with your parents, and look at the evening sky. Scan the horizon from side to side, studying the stars overhead. Come back inside, and write us a poem about your night sky watching. Have your teacher the poem with you to review if you want to send it to us.

Check out a book of poetry by Gary Snyder, and find a poem about the wilderness. Send us the title of the poem, and the name of the book you found it in. We will send a book of poetry as a prize to the class that can find the poem in which this line originates :

As the crickets’ soft autumn hum
Is to us,
As are we to the trees
As are they
To the rocks and the hills.

Send the name of the poem and the book it came from to camp@rain.org ( registered subscribers only please ).