Reflect upon your current “sense of place” and how that sense relates to educational experiences in the out-of-doors.

I have always been conscious of what is going on around me but I really have never found the way that I could help even though I don’t really consider that I have contributed to destroy or alter any kind of life. I do what I can to do my part, by not buying products that can harm the environment, I try to save water, recycle and basic things like this that I also try to teach my boys. All of this animal cruelty makes me feel sad and helpless, for example; the killing of the dolphins in Asia is brutal and unnecessary and many more animals as well. The overfishing that is only done for money and not taking in consideration the effects to the environment and to our poor people too. The plants that have been used for many years and even today some indigenous groups still use as medicine, what are we trying to do? manipulate them. Honestly I never thought about how plants have been affected and all the consequences this has brought. We are all one big ecosystem and I think this is what we need to understand each one of the different species on earth has a part to play and with one harmed or missing it’s going to affect the whole ecosystem. It is terrible that only the humans are guilty of the destruction of other species and that it’s causing our own destruction. I think everything we need to live, cure our diseases, satisfy our hunger even clothing we can find in nature. Everything that is needed to keep a balance was in the same environment but with so many “new” things we brought into it, everything altered and now we are just seeing the consequences of our selfishness.