Travel more often to see the beauty of the world
The environment we grow up with informs how we define “nature. Encounters with truly wild places inspire people to preserve them. Think, for a moment, about the last time you were out in nature. Were you in a city park? At a campground? On the beach? In the mountains? Now consider: What was this place like in your parents’ time? Your grandparents’? In many cases, the parks, beaches and campgrounds of today are surrounded by more development, or are themselves more developed, than they were decades ago. But to you, they still feel like nature. "If we just try to teach people the importance of nature, that’s not going to work. They have to interact with it". —Peter Kahn / Psychology environmental generational amnesia — the idea that each generation perceives the environment into which it’s born, no matter how developed, urbanized or polluted, as the norm. And so what each generation comes to think of as “nature” is relative, based on what they’re exposed t...