In Search of an Animal or a Plant

One of the main reasons why we, human beings, are in such trouble nowadays is that we have walked too far from our natural surroundings.

And so, let's try to get back, or get closer.

Choose an animal or a plant, and see where it takes you.

You can follow one or more of these prompts:

1. Do small research online and describe the animal or the plant. 

How does it look? Where does it live? How does it spend its day? What does it do at night?

Write a short article about it.

2. What traits do you admire in your chosen creature? Are you similar to it, or different? If you could use its example, how would that change your life?

3. What is its symbolic meaning?

4. Write a story or a fairy-tale with this creature in it. Or, describe a dream.

5. If you have or had this animal or plant at home, write about your life together. Or, share a particular story.

6. If this creature could speak, what would it say to humankind?

Good luck!