ABSTRACT
In this haecceity, I juxtapose some stories of my practice as an environmental educator with coming to understand new materialist and Deleuzian critiques of Nature. I begin with climbing with students in Fontainebleau Forest in France and move through critiques of the Anthropocene and various takes on ecology as either shallow, deep, dark, or flat. I discuss a particular excursion on Mount Tryfan in North Wales and posit that a flat ecology could allow educators to experiment with notions of the real with students, particularly with the idea of mapping haecceitical selves.
