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Since we began teaching our Diversity Education in Nature (DEIN) workshops, we have often been asked, “Why are you going outside to discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion?” These quotes from young participants help explain why. So does an anecdote from a recent workshop we taught. After a walk with students through a local nature preserve, we sat down to review the ecological interrelationships we had just seen. One student brought up how animals, even in the most remote part of the world, still feel the impacts of human actions. Another connected this to a war’s impact on all people, even if far away, which led to a conversation on how to help refugees. Then, another student stopped to ask, “How did we get from talking about nature to people fighting in a war?”, at which point a peer chimed in to explain, “We are just following the interrelationships like a food chain.” Read the full article.