Abstract
In this study, the characteristics of perception, feeling, and thought of students who felt a sense of identification with familiar nature through the practice of deep ecology work “Experiences of Identification with Familiar Nature” were clarified by interpretive analysis of students’ descriptions.The following three findings were obtained from this analysis: (1) Perceiving the warmth of the sun,the feel and sound of the wind, the voice of birds and insects increases sense of identification with familiar nature, feels comfort and mental stability. (2) In identification with familiar nature, feeling comfort and mental stability caused the thought of wanting to care for nature. (3) The thought of wanting to care for nature develops to the sense of the significance of awareness and behavior changes, furthermore to the acquire a biospherical egalitarian view of nature, to the departure from the anthropocentric view of nature.
