And I am not advocating for risking your life, or the safety of others here. I am advocating for feeling some empathy for the way others experience the world, the way others prefer to experience nature.
I think we need to make up our minds and be honest with ourselves: do we want people to connect with nature? Or do we want to prescribe what connection to nature is supposed to look like? Because we may lose something if people start connecting in a way we don’t appreciate; we may lose or jobs, our funding, our relevancy, maybe even the very nature that we love. But we may also win something by opening the landscape of choices, and really helping others find their own way to “nature”; we may even learn a thing or two along the way. There are risks to accepting the way of others, but there are so many opportunities that appear when empathy and an open mind are informing our purpose. I think anyone can nature, it’s in our DNA to find meaning in the natural world, to feel belonging, to empathize with it. In nature, the possibilities are endless, why allow your previous experiences to limit the way you nature, or the way anyone else does?
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