ABSTRACT
A narrative approach may serve to tether one’s writing closer to lived experience and prevent one from straying too far into the danger of radically reconstructing and systematizing one’s own experience and that of others. Even in a narrative approach, interpretation and analysis always exist. What Henryk Skolimowski describes happening within a human being also applies to what happened between humans and nature: The separation of facts from values, of man from his knowledge, of physical phenomena from all “other” phenomena, resulted in the atomization of the physical world, as well as of the human world. As Yi-Fu Tuan has remarked, “An appreciation of nature is most frequently and eloquently articulated by people who no longer live in the midst of nature”. Some of the sentiments expressed by the Ubangian farmers have been echoed in the words of African philosophers.
