ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about a kind of awareness, which can call "appreciative perception". In the late 1980s, the head of the Philosophy Department at the US Military Academy at West Point offered an elective course in Environmental Ethics to the cadets. As the most helpful way to start the course, Colonel Paul led his classes in an overnight hike up Mount Katahdin in Maine. Please note some things about the incident on Mount Katahdin. First, the teacher chose this as the best way to start the class, somehow fitting the trip into the crowded schedule of life at West Point. A second incident illustrates part of what the author mean by training appreciation. A third illustration of appreciation and its nurture comes from his use of a journal in teaching Environmental Ethics. He uses these three illustrations to point to an appreciative perception of the natural world.
