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Debbie Tremel

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Debbie grew up loving nature and the outdoors. Her favorite childhood book was My Side of the Mountain, and she always dreamed of running away to the woods.

During her career at the YMCA, she started learning primitive skills at Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School and totally fell in love with the skills. After 20 years at the Y, she moved to NJ to work for Tom Brown Jr. administering his non-profit, Children of the Earth Foundation and ran his school office for a time.

Debbie left NJ to actually live primitively and to teach others. She founded a non-profit, Ways of the Earth Living Museum and lived for a year and a half in a shelter she built. Sadly the organization closed, but new land has been purchased and construction of the village will be
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Peter Kingsley
“Perhaps the simplest way of describing the situation would be to say that, two and a half thousand years ago in the West, we were given a gift — and in our childishness we threw away the instructions for how to use it. We felt we knew what we were playing with. And, as a result, western civilization may soon be nothing but an experiment that failed.”
Peter Kingsley, Reality

Lynda Rutledge
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. —Anatole France, Nobel Laureate, 1921”
Lynda Rutledge, West with Giraffes

Tom Brown Jr.
“Boredom is only for people who do not know themselves or the wonders of life.”
Tom Brown Jr., The Vision: The Dramatic True Story of One Man's Search for Enlightenment

Tom Brown Jr.
“This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.”
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