The MacIvey family, had a one on one personal encounter with nature. They used, lived and relied on nature with a firsthand experience. Whereas you or I, have a distant relationship with nature, even though we play a huge role in it, not necessarily a good one. In the book A Land Remembered, Patrick Smith introduces his readers to a land before our time. The reader experiences throughout the book, a Florida that was not someone’s profit, but a Florida that was instead someone’s shelter, food source, and means of survival. 1863 Florida to us, is history. If we had a Delorean to take us back for a field trip and had to survive a whole 24 hours just like Tobias did, I have a strong feeling a majority of us would not make it back to the future.
