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By exploring moments in my childhood when I made instinctive connections with my surroundings, I have come to better understand the person I am today and where I am going. Throughout this autobiography I address the importance of place and land, and the teachings these have brought me.  \nRésumé  \nCette autobiographie environnementale souligne mon cheminement à repositionner l’environnement naturel comme lepersonnage principal dans ma vie. En explorant des moments de mon enfance, lorsque j’ai établi des liens instinctifs avec ce qui m’entourait, j’en suis venue à mieux comprendre la personne que je suis aujourd’hui et où je m’en vais. Tout au long de cette autobiographie, je traite de l’importance du lieu et de la terre et des  \nenseignements qu’ils m’ont apportés.  \nKeywords: environmental autobiography, connection to place, the natural world, environmental/arts education  \nIntroduction  \nIn my current Toronto house I have a view into the backyard, where the trees stand tall and watch over me. We share thoughts in the mornings and again before I sleep.  \nThe garden, at the foot of these trees, has also become an element of great importance. All through the summer I chat with my mother about how the tomatoes cannot go dry or the fruit won’t be good, how the soil could use some compost, and how the flowers are taking to the heat. The connection I have made with the garden is so strong that it has become a being unto itself, a pivotal influence in my environmental education autobiography. This relationship is intrinsically linked to the ones I made in my early childhood, atthe place I call “home.” The yearning to reconnect and to replicate these environmental relationships follows me wherever I go.  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 13 (1), 2008 11  \nAs First Nations writer N. Scott Momaday observes,“men and women learn to appropriate their landscapes, to think and act ‘with’ them as well as about and upon them, and to weave them with spoken words into the very foundations of social life”(cited in Basso, 1996, p. 75) . Landscape is then said to dwell in people, just as they dwell in the landscape. This creates a reciprocal relationship—“a relationship in which individuals invest themselves in the landscape while incorporating its meaning into their own most fundamental experience”(Basso, 1996, p. 102) .  \nOnce a relationship with the land/scape is established, it becomes difficult to ever completely remove oneself from it, in a manner similar to losing a parent, lover, or best friend. On the other hand, if this relationship is not sown or established early, people learn to take advantage of the land/scape. As I delve further into understanding this, I am convinced the way for us to create a more respectful culture is to help others learn to cultivate such relationships by sharing our own pivotal stories with the land/scape.  \nThis brings me to the following environmental autobiography. I wrote this autobiography to examine the ways I have come to reposition the natural environment and land/scape as primary characters in my life. Through exploring moments in my childhood when I made instinctive connections with elements of my land/scape and surroundings, I have been able to better understand the land-dwelling person I am growing towards and into. This text is also a story of my journey away from the natural world, and my subsequent reconnection with it.  \nThis process of rediscovery introduced me to several new ways of knowing that helped to reconnect me with the natural world and maintain a reciprocal relationship with it. These “ways of knowing” tend to exist outside of Western tradition and recognition, and resonate more with Aboriginal ideas of understanding place, land, and the natural world.  \nThrougho","cbCaiuH38LzawHYM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuH38LzawHYM","pdf",99040,18,"English","# Abstract\n# Résumé\n# Keywords\n# Introduction\n## Place, land, and childhood connections\n## Reciprocal relationships with the natural world\n## Environmental education through storytelling","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the autobiography?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on repositioning the natural environment and land as primary characters in the author’s life, shaped through childhood and ongoing experiences.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author describe the relationship between people and the landscape?\",\"answer\":\"The text argues that a reciprocal bond forms once a connection to place/land is established, making it difficult to fully remove oneself from it.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author value “ways of knowing” outside Western tradition?\",\"answer\":\"The author says these perspectives resonate with Aboriginal ideas about understanding place and the natural world, supporting reconnection and shared understanding.\"}]","The Story of a Turtledove - environmental autobiography | PDF",28]