ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some key elements involved in listening to nature and how the raise important considerations for how we conceive knowledge, truth, and wisdom in education more generally. A particularly well-argued exploration of the philosophical grounds upon which nature can be said to have a voice is provided in James Magrini’s book Ethical Responses to Nature’s Call: Reticent Imperatives. And perhaps, today, there is another source of distraction from, and distortion of, the full reality of nature that requires our attention – that of the burgeoning of digitalized experience. Direct experience of the elemental helps to reconnect – ground – us within nature in a way that modern society largely eschews, yet that is necessary for understanding the forces within which our existence is ultimately embedded. However, D. Ford and S. Blenkinsop give another example of their experience that moves closer to the idea of nature’s normative address.
