Is There Any Relational Thing That Connects You to Ecology?

i dropped out of high school when i was 16 and ran away from home to learn wilderness survival. It's been a, you know, over 20 years now, and it hasn't fully collapsed. But being able to abandon the idea that we should be living in a particular way and embrace ecology is an embrace adaptation. Animal tracking was the thing that really brought me and connected me to a place. And then of course, beyond that, just like actual experimenting with growing foodd and foraging for food,. understanding this relationship of reciprocity with each plant. Each time you learn a new plant that's edible, whether it's invasive or native or garden vegetable, you just add one more relationship