Natured

What is it like to exist in nature?

What is it like to exist with nature?

What is it like to exist as nature?

What experiences do people describe when in/with/as nature?

How do people relate to nature?

How do people connect to nature?

What or who is nature for people?

What do people see and hear?

What do people say and do?

How is their speech and thought shaped by their surroundings?

What kind of experiences do people have: cognitive (day dreaming, processing, internal monologue, memories), physical (embodiment, pain, external/internal physical sensations, breathing, survival, listening, sensing), emotional (freedom, freeingness, fear, loneliness, satisfaction, openness), social (connectedness, loneliness, alone time), spiritual (oneness, connectedness, close to the sublime, transcendent,

Concepts:

Nature as commodity

Nature as a threat

Nature as us

Nature as stationary object

Nature as a being

Nature as an experience

Nature as extreme

Nature as foreign

Nature as a place

Nature as wellbeing, restoration

Nature as psychological experience

Nature as education

Nature as 'out there'

Nature as immersive

Nature as self

First sources:

First hand accounts (diaries from trips)

Pastoral symphony - Beethoven

Kinship Vol. 1 - 2 Edited by Van Horn, Wall Kimmerer, Hausdoerffer

People who interact with nature in different ways: Kristina Eriksen Isham and her gangs, people at losæter, people at the samdyrkelag, simone.

Talking with indigenous people, Samis, Ella Marie

Reading old books

Schweitzer, R. D., Glab, H., & Brymer, E. (2018). The human–nature experience: A phenomenological-psychoanalytic perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 969.

Ways of exploring:

Reading, conducting interviews, listening to recorded and live music, field notes (audio, writing, drawing, painting), surveys,

Phenomenology, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).

Qual, quan, intuitive, artistic, free hand, metaphoric, feelings,