Using Writing to Discover That Humans Are Nature
How people view themselves as human beings in relationship with their environment is a critical question in the field of environmental education (EE). Learning to be with nature, and care about nature, are common ways EE speaks about this relationship. But a side effect of such language is the sense that human beings are something other than nature themselves. In this paper, the author argues that human beings already are nature and that our very existence is created each moment in relationship with all living and nonliving aspects of our environment.