It’s not an it
and neither am I.
Nature is a verb,
I am a doing.
I’m done with it.
It is half of the
shit we do to us.
Our mother is
not an other.
She’s not it.
You’re not it.
I’m not it.
We are not that,
them, or they.
I won’t do it.
I will do us.
John Paul Caponigro
is an internationally collected visual artist and published author. He leads unique adventures in the wildest places on earth to help participants creatively make deeper connections with nature and themselves. View his TEDx and Google talks here.
