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‘I Want All the Spirits that Are in Here to Favor Me.’ How Adam Ottavino Uses Earthing to Help Him Focus on Pitching

By Stan Grossfield — 2021

At 2 p.m., Adam Ottavino, the Red Sox’ setup man, emerged from the empty dugout in shorts and a T-shirt. He immediately kicked off his flip-flops, and he was barefoot in the park. Fenway Park, that is.

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How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement

Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. “Silent Spring” presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT...

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Rachel Carson’s Natural Histories

“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable.

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Silent Spring—I

If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.

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The Healing Power of Nature

A large body of evidence has shown that spending time in nature is responsible for many measurable beneficial changes in the body.

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How to Connect with Nature and Improve Your Mental Health this Winter

Nature connects us in complex ways. And stopping to think about this connection is one way you can get in tune with the natural world around you.

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A Japanese Photographer Captures the Mysterious Power of Forest Bathing

The Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku—literally translated as “forest bathing”—is based on a simple premise: immerse yourself in the forest, absorb its sights, sounds, and smells, and you will reap numerous psychological and physiological benefits.

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Cutting Greens: Terrance Hayes Reads Lucille Clifton’s Spare and Stunning Ode to the Kinship of All Creatures

A glorious fifteen-line celebration of “the bond of live things everywhere.”

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Village

Village as a field is a state of mind, a nexus of relationships, is constituted in the heart. It has many forms and many possibilities.

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13 Globe-Trotting Indigenous Grannies Carry Message of Unity and Prayer

Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity, and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca.

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Realizing Our Roots and the Power of Interconnectedness

In my upbringing, I was taught that everyone is my relative. That we are all relatives. My parents and grandparents instilled this value since I was a child and I notice that, without question, it helps me to see the value in each person and living thing.

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