Modern human societies have, to a significant extent, come to perceive themselves as separate from Nature. In some contexts, Nature has been reduced to a resource base — something to be used, managed, extracted from or possessed — rather than a living world of which human beings are an inseparable part. This perception of separation is not universal. Many Indigenous Knowledge Systems retain more relational understandings of the human place within the living world. In these views, people, animals, plants, soil, water and other elements of Nature are understood through mutual relationships of connection, reciprocity, responsibility and interdependence. Our bodies themselves reflect this interdependence. The matter that we are made from is continuously exchanged with the wider living world through air, water, soil and other organisms. We are not outside Nature; we are part of it. The question guiding my postdoctoral research concerns the ways we perceive the world and how those perce...