In cases where environmental education is institutionalised within schools, the curriculum can affect what and how students learn about "nature" and the "environment". In Jamaica, schools are considered important settings for environmental education; the curriculum therefore includes environmental issues. Using content analysis, representations of "nature" and the "environment" in the nation's primary level Curriculum Guides were examined. Findings indicate that although many units emphasise an anthropocentric view of nature, this is tempered by depictions of nature's fragility and, in some instances, nature's "divine" dimensions. Several curricular units also facilitate student's creative engagement with nature, allowing for multiple views of the natural world. (Contains 7 tables.)