A Sense of Place by Daniel Kriesberg Place is more than just a name and a location. It is also the plants and animals that live there. It is the type of soil, climate, and geologic history. A place is the people who live there today and the people who lived there yesterday. All these together make the place.
Young children know they are part of the natural world.
They understand what most of us have forgotten, that there is no natural world and human world. It is all one. We are part of nature. Young children find these connections everywhere. Their imagination allows them to become other animals or go back in time.