By immersing ourselves in the complex systems around us and using techniques to more fully observe and appreciate them, we can start to develop these interactive relationships through increasing our awareness of them, towards a fuller understanding.

We can understand ecosystems on our own spatial and temporal scales through observation and interaction, as gardeners and farmers do.

We can enhance our awareness of larger, smaller and less directly visible systems on different timescales to ours, with technology and re-visualisation, putting data into embodied forms.

We can even use ecological observation and mindfulness practices to increase our own ability to connect with complex ecosystems anywhere that we are and in our daily lives.