Ben's Nature Blog

  Coming into this class, I was unaware of the extent to which I had become caught up in the day to day of the modern urbanized world, and had lost touch with the natural world. Before beginning my college career, I had much more time and opportunity to get outdoors and in the “wild”. Fishing, paddleboarding, or hiking were near daily occurrences. However, after coming here to TCU, classes, summer internships, and all the other activities that come with being a college student often took the place of these excursions.  This course has not only opened my eyes to this truth, but helped me to reconnect with the wild and rediscover why it is so essential. I now see that spending time in nature has a certain recentering, healing effect. For me, I now feel that if I go on too long without finding a way to get out in nature, I will feel the strain of not having this calibration.  I need the wild because each time I immerse myself in it, it reveals to me the futility of many of ...

 Justification: Michael Kelly  Ben Frost  Anish Doshi  Dr. Williams  4-29-26  Final Video Explanation/ Justification  The three of us spent a lot of time formulating our presentation on Before the Flood, and through analyzing the film and discussing it amongst each other and the class, our perspective on the environment and the world changed. The three of us wanted to work together for this final project because we wanted to make sure we discussed the movie in our final presentation, and specifically how impactful it was for us. Similar to the course in its entirety, this movie will leave a lasting impression on not only us, but our whole class on the importance of taking care of nature and environment now. Some of our biggest takeaways involved the peace that nature brings, and we are all thankful for the knowledge and perspective we have gained through this class regarding that subject. From reading literature, to learning about the perspectives of o...