Nicole Rallis is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy working with Dr. Rita Irwin. She is grateful for the opportunity to learn and live on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nation. Her research interests include a/r/tography, ecological and environmental education, land-based pedagogies, and poetic inquiry. She is passionate about exploring how the arts can help us align with environmental scientists’ calls for developing more holistic understandings and feelings about our relationship with nature (i.e. the aesthetic, spiritual, and non-utilitarian standpoints that increase the sense of awe with which we regard the natural world) (Prugh & Assadourian, 2003).