Describe Nature Experience.
Find a place outside where you can be in nature for at least 30 minutes. This could be a national, state, or local park, a city square with trees and gardens, an old cemetery, or even your own backyard. Be creative. For those of you who may think there is no nature whatsoever around you or you will not have the opportunity to get out into nature, the podcast ‘The Sound of a Snail’: A Patient’s Greatest Comfort (Link referenced above.) will give you get a sense of creative ways to complete this assignment, particularly if you are living in a highly urbanized setting. Once you are outdoors, quietly take in your surroundings. What do you notice? Use your senses of sight, hearing, smell, and feeling to take the world in. Be as still and quiet as you can. Write about your nature experience. It should include both what you directly experienced during your time outdoors and your feelings and reflections on the experience itself. In your writing, consider this question: 1. Are human beings a part of nature, or apart from it?
