Learning
Some edible wild herbs have begun to grow in my local area, including ground elder and dandelion. Soon one can pick spruce tips. Spruce tips and wood sorrel/harsyra (I actually didn't know the name for it) were my favourite late spring/early summer "snacks" from a forest in my childhood. Seeing these plants again makes me think about our connection with nature and feeling safe in nature. I don't know if there are inherent mechanisms in us that help us identify edible plants, but I learned what I could forage in the forest in different seasons from adults, early in my childhood. Higher education can provide some philosophical and psychological tools (such as self-transcendence) to relate with nature differently. However, it seems to me that relating with nature in a healthy way starts much earlier. The feeling of oneness with nature I experienced clearly when I was around 5 or 6 years old. At that time I didn't know the word for it.