Despite decades of awareness about the biodiversity crisis, it remains a wicked problem. Besides preservation and restoration strategies, one approach has focused on increasing public concern about biodiversity issues by emphasizing opportunities for people to experience natural environments. In this essay, we endeavor to complicate the understanding of these experiences of nature (EoN). Because EoN is embedded in social and cultural contexts, transformative or new EoN is emerging in combination with societal changes in work, home, and technology. Policies that acknowledge and accept a diversity of culturally-situated EoN, including negative EoN, could help people reconnect with the complexity and dynamics of biodiversity. A new conceptualization of EoN that encompasses diverse experiences and reflects the sociocultural context could help to stimulate a broader transformation in the relationship between society and nature, one that better integrates the two spheres. Such a transformation is necessary to more effectively address the biodiversity crisis. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved
