This article offers a response of hope to the metacrisis. Because of modernity’s philosophical premises, particularly Enlightenment concepts that separated humanity from nature, modern approaches to environmental challenges embrace a dualistic schism between culture and nature, fragmenting understanding through the compartmentalisation of knowledge. In our current situation, many feel bleak and too helpless to act. In response, we offer the experiences of Māori youth from a specific iwi (tribe) of Aotearoa New Zealand, Rongomaiwāhine. These young people speak of their holistic conceptualisation of humanity, the natural and the spiritual. Their values focus on taking responsibility for care in all realms, often through actions significant in community or land-sky-seascape settings. Their lives and ideas suggest the value of a framework grounded in Indigenous Māori philosophy from which others may learn. Thus, far from seeking new technological solutions we offer rememberings of how the ecology of relationships was and, for the rangatahi, remains. In this, the past, present and future are woven together in an understanding of the natural world of which humanity is merely a small part. The result is a hopeful framing of life in which relations of care protect ecological continuity.