1/ I am all for the argument nature can be good for us, but treating nature as a separate entity to humans, when we are nature is problematic. Nature isn’t one thing, nor is it a cure, it is messy, complex and what we ‘get’ from being with nature depends https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/03/nature-got-us-through-lockdown-heres-how-it-can-get-us-through-the-next-one?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2/ on culture and how through our cultures we construct nature as much as the different entities we lump together as ‘nature’. For me, it is about the relationship we develop, which requires access, opportunities, possibly a mentor, be it family, friends, a professional, repeat

3/ experiences and quite possibly just some luck, to be somewhere at the right time, for it to be a wow moment, a peak experience - for it to shift something inside of us. For me, it is about how can we facilitate ‘nature experiences’ for all, for it to consider the multitude of

4/ different contexts we each embody and inhabit, for it to be a chance for a person to create their own relationship, not be given a template to follow, which doesn’t recognise their circumstances and/or experiences of ‘nature’. We also need to recognise ‘nature’ isn’t always

5/ healthy for us too, be it emotionally, physically, socially, but aspects of the other-than and more-than-human nature can be frightening, can harm, can kill, equally as much as it can offer solace, healing, joy. It all depends on the encounters and the connections developed.