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BLOG POST: Spending Time with Nature

3/26/2010

I’m reclaiming my “morning moment” routine: before rushing off to work, I sit on my back porch for five minutes. I listen to the songbirds, watch nuthatches run upside down on the walnut trees and count squirrels. These few moments in my tiny corner of nature help me stay centered during the day.

A kid today can likely tell you about the Amazon rain forest—but not about the last time he or she explored the woods in solitude, or lay in a field listening to the wind and watching the clouds move. A growing body of research links our mental, physical, and spiritual health directly to our association with nature—in positive ways.

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