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A Philosophical Hiking Series with INLC & EWU – Hike 2 — Interconnection & Responsibility
Join EWU Philosophy students and Hike Docent Mark Merhab for the second hike in our spring Paths Toward Belonging series at Rimrock (Palisades)! Building on the opening hike’s planetary perspective, this walk explores interconnection and responsibility, inviting participants to consider how humans, animals, land, and time are woven together in living ecological systems. Participants are welcome to join this hike or any others in the series—so whether this is your first hike or your second, you are warmly invited to step in, reflect, and walk together.
Theme: Interconnection and Conservation
Reading: Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, “Thinking Like a Mountain”
Philosophical Focus: Leopold deepens the vision from “home” to ecological systems. Here participants move from abstract planetary belonging to relational ecological thinking — predator/prey, land/animal/human, time/dependence.
This hike answers: “How are we connected?”
Participants move from global perspective to local ecological interdependence, learning that conservation is not protection of objects, but care for relationships.
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