Find a place outside where you can be in nature for at least 30 mins. This could be a national, state, or local park, a city square with trees and gardens, an old cemetery, or even your own backyard. Once you are outdoors, choose a comfortable spot where you can stand or sit quietly for at least 30 mins of uninterrupted solitude. What do you notice? Use your senses of sight, hearing, smell, and feeling to take the world in. Come back inside and write about your nature experience. It should include both what you directly experienced during your time outdoors and your feelings and reflections on the experience itself. In your writing, consider this question: Are human beings a part of nature, or apart from it? Choose a creative means of sharing your nature experience, and what you learned from it. This could take the form of any of the following: a series of photographs with captions, a poem, a song, a brief personal essay, a work of art, the design for a board game, a video of some kind, or any other creative avenue you can think of.

If your work is entirely visual or auditory (e.g., fine art, photography, music, etc.), please include a brief statement of 100 to 200 words that (1) relates your work back to your original nature experience; and (2) relates your work to the question of whether you feel you are a part of nature or apart from it