Connections Quarterly Spring 2016 - Environment | Page 22

B ECOMING AC TIVISTS IN A M U LT I - S P E C I E S W O R L D

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in “natural and undeveloped landscapes“
where they can “put things in perspective.” 5

Childhood memories are bittersweet for
some activists: on the one hand they remember nature as a special place that they
Places and relationships with nonhuman beexplored and in which they developed close
ings experienced in the company of others
relationships to trees, animals and human
may facilitate the passage from childhood
mentors; on the other, many of them recall
to y