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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott Steve Irwin jumping into a tree to catch a Green Mamba, or Cwis Packham po-facedly telling you that if you stay really still for a few hours you might get a photo?.
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I many ways I feel that Chris Packham is teaching kids the most important lesson ... ie ... that patience does bring rich rewards. If only people would sometimes take the trouble to watch and wait as inobtrusively as reasonably possible because it is in that situation that you can see nature as it really is. The trouble is that the likes of Steve Irwin did and do seem to fit in with the modern notion of now! now! now! Rather than teaching patience.
The truth is that unless the persons that your are trying to interest in the natural world are prepared to accept that having patience is a vital part of enjoying the study of wildlife and that often you may see little and that you have to make the best of what you do see and accept this then they are unlikely to be able to sustain a long term interest.