This paper presents the ways of thinking described by Heidegger (2003) in a dialogue with the ways of thinking of the Andean world (BERMUDEZ, 2016), in order to discuss elements of an environmental ontoepistemology (PEREIRA; FREIRE; SILVA, 2019) that have contributed to a study on the relations between philosophy, happiness and Environmental Education. The elements identified emerged from the act of listening, and are characterized by the fact that they were elaborated in dialogue with the interlocutors, based on narratives from the hermeneutic perspective, organized in three categories: looking; understanding; and knowing. Part of the understanding of living in a world is being a part of the impermanence of all things, in a work in progress, made of temporal and transitioning truths. The results point to the fertility of the hermeneutic narrative as a possibility for elaborating elements for an understanding of being within the world, placing ourselves in an ontoepistemological debate in Environmental Education.