Kohak states that their are three experiences that humans have with nature. He suggests that these three experiences is how we precieve to identify ourselves with nature and how we are involved with it. The hunter gatherer experience is the human and nature experience where humans have the same fear of not knowing what is going to take place and it's unpredictable for both humans and the environment surrounding them at that time. In this experience their reflection of nature was respect to god.
The farming experience is a partnership between human and nature and their is no longer a total dependence. The cartakers "us" care for what God wanted us to care for. The third experience that Kohak explains is crafts where we respectufully reshape nature. For example producing things from nature to reuse and recycle and to help nature instead of destroying it.
We have grown up in a society where consumerism is our experience of nature and Kohak suggests that we often think that things are just the way they are and since we have grown up in a society where consumerism is the only experience we know then how do we change our views on nature? Consummerism views nature as a collection of raw materials for human consumption and it's very destructive to the environment.
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