“Thinking Toward a Thriving Planet has taught me to look beyond a scientific perspective of our environment, and to view our world as a work of interconnected, valuable beings, spaces, and ideas. This course has softened my outlook on human interaction, not only with one another, but in our relationships with the natural world and its delicate complexity. This time discussing major questions in minute detail has formed a bond with my classmates and myself unlike any of my other courses.”