Often when ecological problems and crises are discussed, it is in terms of scientific causes and solutions. What role then, do those who are not scientists have in helping to resolve ecological issues? Ultimately, human actions are the root cause of these situations and thus can be influenced through education. Ecological education hopes to influence the thought processes of students in order to create individuals who are more aware of their actions'...

Language, like culture, is interdependent with an ecology of place, and the language we use helps to shape our cultural understanding and ways of relating to these ecological places. This thesis explores the ways language, both written and oral, can weave us into the land, and perhaps, too, how land can weave us into language. "Land" in this thesis is referring to the ecological community within a place, and includes the perspective of interrelationship...