Poetry on Trails: Nurturing a Love of Nature and Environmental Stewardship

Short poetry on nature trails is an effective way to nurture a love of nature and environmental stewardship. Join us. The SWFL RESET Center wants to partner with interested organizations to install signs with poetry along nature trails in parks, preserves, botanical gardens, and similarly appropriate natural places in SW Florida. This project is an adaptation of the Language of Conservation projects in six zoos in major cities across the nation. Many visitors who read the poetry at these zoos explicitly indicated that they had drawn connections between the poetry they read and conservation issues, consistently mentioning that the poems caused them to think about human responsibility to act as stewards of wildlife and about the interconnectedness of humans and the natural world. We want to do nearly the same thing on nature trails. Learn more on October 22nd.