Hikers | learn how to connect with Nature

Step 1:
Embrace Earth

Nature connection begins and ends with this undeniable fact: you are part of Earth... so celebrate it!

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About this step

This step plants an all-important idea in your head: you aren’t separate and isolated from Earth or Nature, but an inseparable part of them. It leads you through a gallery of designs, sayings, and cartoons with different takes on the human-Earth relationship and explains why embracing Earth is harder than you’d think. Then, it helps you commit to doing it.

Products to help you

We offer a variety of designs and useful items to symbolize your commitment. Unlike other Nature merch, they remind you you're part of this amazing planet from which all Nature flows, making connection worth your time and attention. If you don't have a strong sense of this, you'll lose motivation to stay on the pathway to connection and all the fulfillment it brings.

Instructions

Browse through the gallery, inspect the designs, and read each description to learn about embracing Earth, its benefits and obstacles. Choose one or two designs, next, pick an item to print them on. Fill out the order and we'll take care of the rest. You'll find yourself renewing your commitment each time you use your creation and remembering you’re part of Earth when you’re out in Nature.

DESIGNS

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Express your feelings for Earth with the modern symbol for love. But it’s hazy in this design since we’re not quite sure what that looks like in our modern world. Max. size 11x4”. Why don’t we all love Earth? We should since our lives depend on it.

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This planet is our life-giving home in a hostile universe. Choose to be bold and embrace it with Earth as a slider button turned on against a starry background. Max. size 5.5"x5". Culture influences our concerns, values, and behavior more than anything else, even when we think it doesn’t.

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The simplified version of the Earth slider button for embroidered products. Max. size 4"x2.4". Modern culture is a collection of our attitudes past and present, history, words, language, and ideas, with many that get in the way of loving Earth.

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Our cultural default for the human-Earth relationship is like a gray button turned off while it could be bright and starry, and turned on. Max. size 8" x 8". Modern culture puts almost all its focus on things other than Earth or Nature, signaling to us they’re not important.

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A play on words belies the seriousness behind our attitude toward Earth— it's all we have so we'd better embrace it. Max. size 11" x 3". Without Earth, we have no viable options for our species’ survival, despite cultural myths of colonizing space.

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This upbeat comic touches on the irony of modern man needing to go to space to realize Earth is precious, something indigenous cultures have known all along. Max. size 10" x 7". Why is it that Astronauts return from space with a reverence for Earth that’s missing from modern culture?

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Is it easier to have a relationship with Earth if you see it as something alive and full of infectious optimism, urging you to make it part of your life? Max. size 8" x 8". Once personified terms like Mother Earth and Mother Nature have become natural resources and the environment, changing how we relate to them.

Get yourself back to the garden bumper sticker

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A reference to the Garden of Eden and Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" pairs with the Earth slider button urging us to embrace Earth. Max. size 11" x 3". Modern culture treats Earth as a paradise lost, no longer powerful, awe-inspiring, or relevant. But it still is.

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Earth and stars are framed in a woman's profile to show that humans are a manifestation of this planet, inseparable from it, and happiest when we keep this in mind. Max. size 11"x 11". In modern culture we like to think of ourselves as independent and self-reliant instead of focusing on our deep dependencies.

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A simple statement tells you the best way to embrace this incredible planet: by getting to know its handiwork. Max size: 4"x12". Modern culture separates ideas of Earth from Nature from land from ourselves, so we don't see all the connections and complexities.

DaVinci's Vitruvian man with elemental symbols and Earth

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DaVinci's Vitruvian Man shows our common makeup with Earth through elemental symbols arranged in order of abundance for Earth's crust and the human body. Max. size 12" x 11.3". Science keeps adding evidence that we are inextricably linked to Earth, but modern culture isn’t spreading the word.

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Put embracing Earth into your own words with honesty and reflection. Black text with white glow to show up on any solid background. Max. size 11" x 11". Would you proclaim your love for Earth in public? Feeling uncomfortable means you’ve crossed a cultural norm that shouldn’t be there.

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Provide an image of something natural you love, we'll put it in this format and print it for you to remind you you're part of it. Max. size 11" x 11". Acknowledging yourself as part of Nature breaches a cultural norm about humans being above Nature.

Earth with list of ways we are tied to it.

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Telling it like it is; this design lays out some of the biggest ways we are tied to Earth and ends with a no-brainer: our gratitude. At least that's how it should be. Max. size 10"x 10". Modern culture signals the primary value of Earth and Nature is economic use, instead of sustaining us or having inherent worth.

Cootie catcher for embracing Earth and Nature

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This graphic design uses the schoolyard scenario of a cootie-catcher putting you on the spot to choose... will you go with the status quo or opt in for a new, more realistic perspective on Earth and Nature? Max. size 11"x 11". Cultural cues underpin our unquestioning support for endless growth on a limited planet.

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This whimsical conversation encourages us to look beyond labels and embrace what's truly important... this precious Earth. Max size: 5"x10". Modern culture pressures us to adopt its views on everything. Embracing Earth means crossing a threshold to a different view on Earth and Nature.

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One Minute Video

When you're outdoors, notice something, react to it, then remind yourself: "I am part of this". Do it enough, and you'll break through ideas of separation we pick up from modern culture. When you identify with Nature instead of separate from it, you'll want to learn more.

Embracing Earth means wanting to know it better. Now you're ready to master Nature's basics.

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ITEMS

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Step 1:
Embrace Earth