This is not intended to be a banal introduction to ecological literacy, and the shortcomings of not having honed a better sense of it. It is an invitation to consider the significance of continually honing awareness of the complex biological systems we are part of. First, we need to meditate on a few definitions, not to give primacy to them but rather to use them as a starting point. More importantly, we need to interest ourselves in why ecological literacy is fundamental to
