OUR MISSION

The mission of the Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World is to bring to life a new vision of the relationship between the inner life of the child and the beauty, wonder and intimacy of the universe.  Presently, the natural world is viewed as a commodity to be used rather than as a sacred reality to be venerated.  A shift in our way of relating to the natural world is essential if we hope to participate in nature’s unfolding rather than its demise.  This shift is nowhere more crucial than within the field of education, where the child’s way of relating to the natural world is formed.

The Center is guided by a Council of Educators as a working embodiment of its mission to recover the inner vision of a society in harmony with nature.