New stories!

We need new stories!

If we really want to be transformative in our engagement with nature and therefore wildlife, it is important to revisit:

“How people view and connect with the natural world”.

That’s an obvious truth, whether it will be connecting with wild boar, wolf, deer, hare…ah fill in your own favorite animal here.

And whatever animal you fill in, it is important to think in relationships, the relationship you yourself have with your environment and how we – as humans, as part of the “whole” – can do our part to think and act differently in and with the nature around us.

Transformative thinking and acting.

This is not something you just do on the side; it takes practice and perseverance.

Personally, I have experienced this while thinking in animal-human relationships, especially wild animals. It doesn’t happen automatically; I have spent years investigating it for a reason. Now it is second nature and I can hardly imagine not seeing it. Almost, because I realize very well that if you don’t get this naturally it sometimes sounds strange at first.

Sometimes it is too easy to think that technology is our future solution to everything. But that is when we walk away from the essence of what it is all about. And technology can certainly be a tool in our connection with others, but it is not a replacement.

To “re-connect” again with wildlife, with the nature around us, with our immediate environment, we need new stories, even new language.

Will you join me?