“I don't always feel super connected with the land, even when I'm fighting for it, but you get so easily caught up in getting to the office and things like that. When I feel most connected to the land is when I'm at Torrent Bay in the Abel Tasman, and it's also the time that I feel most connected to myself…”

“I think my relationship to the earth has shifted quite a bit with traveling. I was very lucky growing up to be in a family that kind of used all of its disposable income on visiting new places. That being said, I grew up in a city and so I always feel like my connection to the earth can't be really dissociated from…”

“The way I see things is that we derive our health from the planet – we share the same ecosystem as the planet. People and nature are not separate things; people and animals are not separate things. So there's no way to look after human health without looking after environmental health as well, because they're one and the same. And if we were to take an indigenous perspective…”

“I think my relationship with the earth has become very different in the last year that I've been living on the farm because I've spent the majority of daylight hours outside. And it means that it doesn't feel like the kind of separate entity that I was brought up thinking. You know, like, the environment as something separate from me…”

“One thing with fast fashion is it tends to be poor quality, so you churn through it a lot quicker. I wanted to eliminate that option for me because one, it's very tempting and I'm an impulsive buyer, and two, it's contributing to this huge waste issue that we have in the UK. So I made the decision this year to buy ethical clothing only…”

“I’ve found it easier to engage with and wrap my head around what it looks like to steward the Earth responsibly within the context of a small local community…A few weeks ago I was at a weeding and planting session and realised that those two things, community and figuring out our relationship to the Earth, go hand in hand quite well…”

"I was preparing for an outdoor qualification and would get so frustrated because my memory isn't great but I had to memorise all these different plants and birds that are native to New Zealand. At the same time, I was learning about different indigenous connections to land which were very relational…”