How do you respond to being outdoors?

Personally, I feel that nature is relaxing in the sense that It’s a returning to the basics. Essentially it’s a form of primitivism. It’s a wild, and uncivilized place, but the beauty and mystery are unfathomable.

Are you comfortable around nature?

I feel nature is an escape from the industrial and corporate world taking over how we think, and how we live. Personally I hunt, fish, camp, kayak, and scuba dive. I love nature.

What is your current relationship to the outdoors?

I am an eagle scout, so camping is my passion. Being outdoors and managing to survive in the wild always brought me quite a thrill.

How is our relationship to outdoors deeply cultural?

Now that I no longer have time to go camping, I feel that culture is slowly taking over. Culture today is mainly based on being inside. Depending on your heritage though, I feel can impact your love of nature.

What is the "American" relationship to nature? How has it changed?

The American relation to nature varies person to person, but I feel nature is losing the battle to the industrial side of America. The sad truth is pure nature in the basic sense is being depleted day by day.