From Children & Nature
I was shocked at how much you could see the stars. I hadn’t realized how much you couldn’t see from the city but could see from there. It really took my breath away,” said 14-year-old Cinthya Costa as she described her first overnight trip in the Delaware Water Gap with Team Wilderness.
Growing up, Aracelis Hannah and Cynthia Costa never went on hikes or slept outdoors surrounded by nature. It wasn’t until Hannah’s mother stumbled upon an outdoor program flyer at a local public library that she even considered it. “Being out in the wild just wasn’t something that was part of my life,” said Hannah as we chatted over Zoom about her urban upbringing.
Costa’s experience was no different. “We would go to the neighborhood park, but that’s about it. I don’t even know if that counts as nature,” she said.
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