Recently I came across an article that described some of the conclusions drawn about the importance of the fact that we have to have a relationship with nature. That field of research describes it in itself. It is a search for our loss of a connection to nature. It was not clear from the study, I must add that what i read was a summary, but I think that to be able to describe that loss, we must also experience where it exists. And that means we have to expose ourselves to it while we observe it if we are to succeed in creating a relationship with it on its own terms, as it appears to us in itself. Being the recipient of how it affects us makes us the object of it. We relieve it of our need to control our surroundings. We move into it and unite with nature. At the same time, we are both participating in it as we are the ones who are being approached by it. Our participation is the experience of the time gaps that arise when the ego’s need to control everything recedes for an embodiment of the relationship that then arises in its directness with the surrounding nature. When the ego withdraws as the actual tool for the study, it ceases to exist by its own, to instead become part of what is studied. We may be led to believe that we are outside the experience we are studying, but we are both outside it at the same time as it contains us. We are both. By excluding one from the other, the relationship is broken and we must constantly seek it out again. It drives people crazy. This search is then what we often turn into science in our attempts to recover it. Yet we are all there all the time. The time gap we experience is that relationship. If we want to rebuild our relationship to Nature, to earth, and to each other, this a good way to start. We will rediscover it by our attempts to expose us to it wherever we sense that the ego retreats and this time gap occur.