So tell me, how does spending time outdoors actually bridge political or cultural divides among young people?

Well, first of all, there are a bunch of studies that quantify the benefits of being immersed in nature and the natural world from physiological benefits like lowered stress and lowered cardiovascular stress to a groundedness, lowered rates of depression.

And when you're experiencing something in the natural world with another person, the roles that we carry around with us kind of fall away.

We're not necessarily a teacher and a student.

We're just two humans enjoying something, whether that's a meteor shower or or closely examining a flower or watching a wild animal.

So I think the democratization of the experience of being in nature is one of those things that really helps strip away those political and social cultural identities and then help us just share an experience as two people.

One of the things that many of the educators in our film stressed is the idea of environmental education being a two-way exchange.

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