Abstract
<br> Nature has receptive power to encompass people equally without any discrimination as is said ‘in the heart of nature's bounty’ in Japanese. Nature never tells a lie and is never obsequious to the great. Humans have no ways other than becoming a part of nature. People can meld each other by melding nature. <br> This paper reported activities of a citizen group called the Osaka Nature School that had given children opportunities to play in natural environment for several decades, based on the authors’ intensive fieldwork. In the School, people who used to participate in the activities when they were children a long time ago play a role of leader now. It was found that the School was a place where nature, children and leaders (adults) melded each other, which articulated their world semantically in their own way and continued to attract participants to the School.
