A Call to Appreciate Nature Now

Nature will survive long after we are gone.

The question is, can you appreciate it now?

Will you allow yourself to go open-hearted into the wilderness and fall in love with the world?

Will you embrace the plants and animals and land and ocean even as they continue to disappear?

This is Amphibian founder Evan Rapoport snorkeling in Raja Ampat, Indonesia in an extremely rare ecosystem that hosts coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass. Photo by Shawn Heinrichs.

Or will your attachment to nature be purely intellectual? Will you sit at your desk and live vicariously through others who are experiencing life with awe and wonder?

Yes, we also need brilliant passionate people to sit in offices and innovate to solve big problems. But not all the time.

We need you to go on adventures to see and be inspired by all that you're fighting to protect.

We need you to be a witness and a student while you are humbled by the unpredictability of the natural world.

We need you to better understand humanity's relationships with this planet, however tortured and beautiful it may be.

We need you to stop building technology "solutions" to extremely complex problems you don't understand and haven't experienced.

We love you for committing yourself to helping nature and biodiversity.

But if you really want to change the world, start by experiencing it, loving it, and learning from it.

If you need help getting started, just let us know.