Blog #1
I would say I have a strong relationship with nature as I am a consumer from it’s goods it provides and using it for recreational purpose. My major is Environmental Science so the majority of my classes are to do with nature and as humans how we degrade the environment. Growing up I was always an outdoor children weather playing sports in my background to going on hikes and even surfing the Great Lakes since I was 12. Surfing the lakes has really made me appreciate nature and what it can offer. My viewpoint on keeping the water cleaner has definitely changed once I took up the sport as your in the water for hours and realize how beautiful these lake are and want to keep it that way. I’ve done multiple beach cleanups with the surfing community and every year we grow grass on the upper shoreline as we want this environment to continue to stay healthy. Furthermore I live in a remote small farm town my whole life in Niagara on the Lake, constantly seeing wildlife around me and a grape farm on my backyard. With school now being online I realize how much I miss just walking to class and seeing nature first hand from tress blowing in the wind to squirrels on campus. I find myself able to enjoy nature a lot more in the summer and think I need to make more time through my classes to go on hikes to get out of my house. I’ve always loved nature and want to help out the environment and make it a better place from recycling properly to eliminating my carbon footprint but what are other steps do we need to take that can help with the negative impact we have?
Growing up being interested with our planted and taking studies in this field I’ve definitely developed/evolved and realize that all of us need to develop a strong relationship with nature in order to make it a better place. Although individually some of us already have that viewpoint and do there part, everybody needs to be doing the same or the environment we live in today will not be the same in the future.
I would say my mother offered my a “sense of place”, growing up my mother always loved nature and has a huge heart for animals. It taught me that we aren’t the only creatures here and our degradation has serious consequences on others. From taking me on hikes to watching tons of programs on the nature network.
