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When adventure groups stop treating nature as teacher

Our whitewater kayaking group used to debrief every run and talk about what the river taught us about fear and flow and reading water, but now we just load boats and drive home and I realize we've stopped treating the river as a teacher. We're still paddling together but we're not learning together anymore.

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You've reduced a spiritual practice to mere physical activity.

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