Aaron Hackett Reading Blog 2

Upon reading Tom Brown Jr.’s Field Guide to Wilderness Survival I enjoyed most the lesson that one learns from the wilderness and its creatures. The one that stands out most in my mind is the story of how Tom and his friend Rick learned how to make a debris hut. When asking their teacher, Stalking Wolf, he did not tell them how to do it step by step, but instead told them to learn from the squirrels. This resulted in many instances of trial and error that left the two cold, wet, or sweating. It wasn’t until they really looked at the squirrel’s shelters and learned from their mistakes that they were able to construct an ideal shelter.

I see this as an important lesson in life. There is much that we overlook that we could learn from. I imagine that there are things about the wilderness that we will never discover or learn from, but that doesn’t mean the lesson that we can learn are not valuable.