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When I was teaching and also doing artist-in-schools residencies, I spent a lot of time in inner-city schools. I would take students into natural settings in order to "draw from nature."
It always amazed me how kids from the inner city actually acted afraid of the woods and places like that. They would run under a tree and slap themselves because they thought they were getting full of bugs and ticks all the time. They would shake the bushes to make sure they weren't full of snakes and stuff. They seemed to think there are wild animals everywhere, etc.
This seemed odd to me compared to the types of roaches and vermin and all sorts of dangers their familiar environments contained.
I think this has something to do with how far we can get from nature when we are products of civilization. It may be an extreme example, but it always seemed illuminating...
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